This paper examines the effect of international mobility on the education-job mismatch and skill-mismatch of Ph.D. graduates. Using individual-level data from two waves of surveys of PhD recipients in Italy conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, we find that migration to...

College instructors and students participated in a pilot project at The University of Akron to enhance student learning through the use of a common teaching pedagogy, peer instruction. Peer instruction is a teaching pedagogy which can be used to engage students through activities that require...

In this paper, we examine the impacts of broad and regional integration on long-run economic development.We construct cross-country measures of regional integration that account for both the magnitude and the endogeneity of individual regional integration agreements. We then include our regional...

In this article, we investigate the impact of regional trading arrangements (RTAs) on the environment. We propose an empirical model where RTAs, trade, growth and environmental quality are interrelated. As a result, an RTA in our model can impact the environment either directly or indirectly via...

This paper examines the impact of Confucius Institutes on inbound travel to China. We estimate a panel gravity model of inbound tourism flows to China between 2004 and 2010. We use a Poisson Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to control for heteroskedasticity endemic in gravity models (Santos...