This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia - SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …

education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper … secondary vocational education and training (VET), tertiary professional education, and tertiary academic education. To account … intermediate inputs as a proxy for unobserved productivity shocks. Our results suggest that workers with an upper secondary VET …

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in … the hypothesis that a demanding Ramadan during adolescence affects educational performance by facilitating formation of …

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in … the hypothesis that a demanding Ramadan during adolescence affects educational performance by facilitating formation of …

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in … the hypothesis that a demanding Ramadan during adolescence affects educational performance by facilitating formation of …

We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in … the hypothesis that a demanding Ramadan during adolescence affects educational performance by facilitating formation of …