Introduction: The World Health Report 2006 defined 'availability', 'competence', 'responsiveness' and 'productivity' as the key dimensions of the health workforce (HWF) performance framework. Since then, new goals have been set to address population health needs by optimizing HWF performance and...

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in 2006, as a natural experiment on the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills. The identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences approach and exploits...

Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers in larger establishments rely more on the use of...

This paper highlights a new driver of inequality, that may become increasingly prominent over the years: the inequality between skilled workers graduating from elite universities and those from standard institutions. This paper emphasizes that heterogeneity in higher education is a key factor in...

Die einfache Bedienung und die vielseitigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) bergen das Potenzial, verschiedene Aufgaben zu automatisieren und somit die Arbeitswelt grundlegend zu verändern. Vor allem freiberufliche Tätigkeiten im Digitalbereich, die durch...

We study the impact of global expansions in mobile internet access between 2000 and 2018 on student outcomes. We link geospatial data on the rollout of 3G mobile technology with over 2.5 million student test scores from 82 countries. Our findings indicate that the introduction of 3G coverage...