Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use...

The operations of 31 large public library systems across the country are compared using information from the author' s interview survey. Operations are compared in physical terms: hours of service, materials, locations, and staffing. Differences in operations are found to be associated with...

This paper reports on a set of international comparisons of how the German and the U.S. economies are affected by population aging. The paper's main focus is on the influence of institutional arrangements such as government regulations and subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in...

The financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis that followed it have been attributed to a number of causes. Whether these are economic, social, cultural or legal, they are all by and large also political. The aim of this paper is not to delve into the myriad of heated political arguments...

Police violence against minorities in the United States has garnered increasing attention; however, the US is not the only country facing this challenge. Ethnic minorities in many countries cannot always call on the police with confidence that they will be protected. Individuals across 40...

This paper summarizes the characteristics of the System of National Accounts as outlined in SNA93. It outlines the elements of infrastructure used to build the accounts and then describes the flow of accounts and supply and use framework used to construct integrated macro economic statistics....

This note identifies six differences between trustees and company directors: the absence of a separate legal personality of the trust, the different rights of creditors, the different obligations owed, different rights to information, different powers of removal and, especially, the different...

According to Aghion et al. (2007; 2008; 2010), the research performance of universities is positively correlated to the amount of budget per student. Italian universities usually perform poorly in international rankings, while the English university system is widely recognized as one of the best in the...

This paper develops a general equilibrium simulation model of a heterogeneous population in which both consumption/saving and labor/leisure choices are endogenous. The authors use it to explore the effects of the different state benefit systems on the labor supply of old and older workers in...

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the ‘path dependency' of the ‘institutional matrix' of different societies. Otherwise one could...