This paper estimates a production function where nutrition is modeled as having two distinct effects. First, increased levels of nutrition are found to have a positive and significant effect on the returns to future investments in human capital, making these net returns positive and significant....

Economists examine two types of variables when studying aggregate production and economic growth. Some of these variables are directly productive factors (physical capital, labor and human capital), while other variables aren’t productive themselves, but affect production indirectly. I...

This paper investigates the extent to which the election of Evo Morales and the MAS party is associated with a redistribution of economic resources in favor of indigenous populations in Bolivia. We employ household surveys over the period 2000-2013 and a difference-in-differences framework to...

This paper lays out a framework for predicting the agricultural losses caused by an impeding invasion of a non-native species and for estimating the total economic impacts associated with the invasion, including direct, indirect and induced economic impacts. Along with the establishment of...

I extend the limited literature on international spatial economic growth by employing a clear procedure for model selection and highlighting the importance of using time fixed effects that are region specific. Using a sample of countries in the continental Americas, I find that after capturing...