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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Balart, Pau - 2015
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
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Institutions and Development in MENA Region : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2015
authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The …
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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca - 2013
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095832
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2012
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113089
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Microeconomic Perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106954
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Left-Handedness and Economic Development
Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2022
This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...
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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
Farré, Lidia - 2009
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765091
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An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects
Al-Sadoon, Majid - 2012
This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be … eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same time to identify the parameters of the model. We then propose GMM … finite sample performance of our GMM estimators …
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