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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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A panel data analysis of the brain gain

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Oden-Defoort, Cecily - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 39 (2011) 4, pp. 523-532

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Are "new" donors different? : comparing the allocation of bilateral aid between nonDAC and DAC donor countries

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 39 (2011) 11, pp. 1950-1968

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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 56 (2014), pp. 172-199

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Is small beautiful? : financial structure, size and access to finance

Beck, Thorsten; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Singer, Dorothe - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 52 (2013), pp. 19-33

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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 65 (2015), pp. 6-26

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Are skilled women more migratory than skilled men?

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Salomone, Sara; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 40 (2012) 2, pp. 251-265

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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...

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Culture and Student Achievement : The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2020

Patience and risk-taking – two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making – are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We...

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Religion in Economic History : A Survey

Becker, Sascha O. - 2020

-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We …

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