model the determination of local and national state capacity as a network game in which each municipality, anticipating the …

"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the …

We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the …

Short-cycle higher education programs (SCPs) can play a central role in skill development and higher education … novel survey to collect program-level information on quality determinants and average outcomes for Brazil, Colombia …. We also collect administrative, student-level data on higher education and formal employment for SCP students in Brazil …

ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …

either a concept-based, general' education or a skill-specific, vocational' education. General education is more costly to … policies favor vocational education will grow slower in equilibrium than one that favors general education. Moreover, the gap … education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …

. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …