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focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
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the forefront of tertiary education in colonial India, but they established many high quality colleges following Indian …
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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however …
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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …
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-beneficiaries. Using comprehensive administrative data from a leading Brazilian university which implemented affirmative action in 2005, we … college and less likely to graduate, a result that is mostly driven by those who would not be admitted to the university …
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This paper investigates the long-term impact on earnings of attending a tuition-free, top-quality university in Brazil …
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I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...
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Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and socially-desirable outcomes are strong, but disentangling the effect of education from other causal...
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We examine the links between various measures of university quality and graduate earnings in the United Kingdom. We … suggest a positive return to university quality with an average earnings differential of about 6 percent for a one standard … deviation rise in university quality. However, the relationship between university quality and wages is highly non-linear, with …
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We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large Ramp;D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on...
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