Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … services such as education and health, and (10) what access they have to social programs. While this analysis is descriptive …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

that ethnic heterogeneity can encourage bridging connections, and, as such, fosters innovation and economic development. …

that the aggregate measures of 'institutional quality' broadly used in the cross-country empirical development literature … prerequisite for economic development. This article demonstrates that it fundamentally matters whose property rights are secure. I …

resources. Yet much recent research regarding property rights and economic development treats the level of property rights … private property rights are a prerequisite for economic development. This article shows that it fundamentally matters whose … property rights for elites and foreign investors may be positively related to long-run development, property rights for …

direct investment and large firms is a new channel through which the war legacy impedes local development in Vietnam. A 1 …