This paper examines the impact of contemporary African American mayors on the economic condition of African Americans. This study is an attempt to better understand the extent to which African American mayors have improved the performance of key economic indicators specific to African Americans....

This paper attempts to review the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) phenomenon through selected aspects of it - past and present trends, structural issues, and development context. While the OFW system appears to be beneficial to the county, it is overrated. It is unclear what policies were really...

Women have become "the source of prosperity and vitality" through their active participation in national economic development. This paper provides the first study to explore the impact of the "One Belt One Road" initiative (Belt and Road Initiative [BRI]) on women's development, which is mainly...

The current era of globalization is dominated by the rise of investments in intangible capital rather than tangible capital — the ascendance of creativity over plant and equipment. This brief paper is motivated by the possibility that emerging market economies such as Morocco might take...

In this chapter, I review the elicitation and use of subjective expectations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). I begin by describing several elicitation methods used in this context, together with the key relevant methodological issues, typical patterns of answers, and further...

What began as a single COVID-19 case in China in late 2019 quickly spread around the globe in the first quarter of 2020. While the impact on the world\'s health systems is unknown, the economic toll remains also remains unknown as the world grapples with an unprecedented global recession. This...

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that the education mobility is significantly lower in...