This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth. We take into consideration the … and higher education, and run separate regressions for low income and middle income countries. We find that the effect of … flows as well as the heterogeneity of recipient countries when analyzing the effect of aid on growth …

There is little consensus on the capacity for foreign aid to cause economic growth in developing countries. This is due … Human Rights Treaties at the UN to identify an average causal effect of aid on growth. Our approach allows for heterogeneous … effects of aid on growth across recipients for unobservable reasons, and we thus identify a Local Average Treatment Effect …

the political ideology of both governments along the left-right spectrum in augmented models on the economic growth …

, health, or education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …

education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate growth in four …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …