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The meaning of failed replications : a review and proposal
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything from an unremarkable disagreement over methods to scientific incompetence or misconduct. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513464
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
human capital externalities, gathering microdata beyond censuses, and carefully considering optimal policy - among others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states
Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments' incentives for education …
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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