Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …-sectional relationship between area-level skills and both earnings and area-level growth are also stronger in the developing world than in … the U.S. The forces that drive urban success seem similar in the rich and poor world, even if limited migration and …

The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate … convergence in world science and engineering and a falling U.S. share. But the slowdown of U.S. publication rates in the late 1990 …

Combining data on around four million respondents from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll we rank 164 … reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

in demand for new research and a corresponding increase in the use of preprint platforms around the world. We find that ….S. institutions receive more attention, than preprints with authors from the rest of the world. In an exploration of potential …