aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …

agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing …

economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible … evidence on which education policy reforms may be able to bring about the simulated improvements in educational outcomes. …

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …