This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...

A randomized experiment is used to evaluate a large-scale, active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...

Les habitants de la région Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (MENA) et d’autres parties du monde souffrent. Une polycrise, qui englobe la COVID-19 et l’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie, a eu — et continuent d’avoir — des effets dévastateurs sur les niveaux de vie. Mais la plupart...

Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory suggests that greater openness enlarges inter-country differences in stocks of skill (or human capital), which new growth theory suggests would cause inter-country divergence of per capita incomes. Econometric analysis of data on about 90 countries during 1960-90...

Multiple time series procedures suitable for estimation and testing with nonstationary data are applied to UK data on age-specific fertility rates, age-specific female labour force participation rates, and women's and men's wages. Cointegration tests establish the existence of two long-run...

Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory suggests that greater openness tends to enlarge intercountry differences in stocks of skill (or human capital), which new growth theory suggests would cause intercountry divergence of per capita incomes. Econometric analysis of data on about ninety countries during...