-of-origin composition of a county matters. Moreover, the culture, institutions, and human capital that the immigrant groups brought with …, measures of culture that capture attitudes towards cooperation play the most important and robust role. Finally, our results …

exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …

, education and innovation as well as geographical factors in a model of economic growth. The key relationships are estimated with … have appeared. Surprisingly, the high level of secondary education played no role to growth. Higher education, in contrast …

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …