This paper estimates the effect of attending one of the most important elite public high schools in Chile, the Instituto Nacional. Using data from its admission tests, we implement a regression discontinuity approach to estimate the impact of this high school on students’ academic performance....

A population’s education levels determine its health status and in turn its economic growth. Despite considerable research, the mechanisms through which education influences health seeking behaviour and the way it is operationalised is still a subject of intense debate. Consequently,...

Two of the most salient trends in migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances and in the flow of skilled migrants. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that...