Access to useful knowledge is crucial for fostering modern economic growth. We show, for the first time, that knowledge …

inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors “import” knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …

Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this … knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire … common knowledge. But if efficient production requires diverse knowledge, one group member should become manager, acquire rare …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … headquarters is, on average, about one percent higher in the knowledge intensity scale. I find no evidence of the knowledge …

We study the effects of two dimensions of teacher quality, subject knowledge and didactic skills, on student learning … individual-level information on student achievement and country-level measures of teacher subject knowledge and didactic skills … knowledge has a large positive effect on student achievement, whereas the effect of didactic skills is comparatively small and …

driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up …