This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology …-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with …% of its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) raising LA's education to East Asia's level has a larger impact on TFP and on the TFP …

, our study contextualizes the findings of a series of country-specific case studies on the effects of conflict on education … dynamics in education. The effects of conflict on education are strongly context dependent. High-intensity conflicts reduce …, education is generally unaffected by localized low-intensity conflict. Human capital loss due to conflict is most severely felt …

randomized evaluations of developing country education interventions in the literature. This very effective program does indeed …

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find … attending private education. These results are confirmed for outcomes at age 15. The findings provide direct evidence on the … contribution of mother aspirations to children's education outcomes and point to aspirations as a channel of intergenerational …