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Human-Capital Externalities in China
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018
China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated university departments across cities in the … 1950s, one year more city-level education increases individual hourly wage by 22.0 percent, more than twice the OLS …
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Securing Property Rights
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong--the state or its powerful citizens--against the weak. We present evidence that the less educated and poorer citizens in many countries feel their property...
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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions
Ashraf, Nava - 2016
Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both …
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Education and Religion
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2001
In the United States, religious attendance rises sharply with education across individuals, but religious attendance … declines sharply with education across denominations. This puzzle is explained if education both increases the returns to … social connection and reduces the extent of religious belief. The positive effect of education on sociability explains the …
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Corruption in America
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004
use historical factors like education in 1928 or Congregationalism in 1890, as instruments for the level of schooling … political outcomes occurs because more education improves political institutions …
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