The paper investigates the reasons for the established disappointing performance of the Arab education system as compared to the rest of the world. We focus on the role of the quality of informal institutions as measured by the World Value Survey (WVS) and formal institutions as measured by the...

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...