We uncover evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the growth experience of countries using a structural threshold regression methodology. Our findings suggest that studies that seek to promote mono-causal explanations in the institutions versus geography debate in growth are potentially misleading

We revisit the relationship between pre-primary education and achievement test scores in the primary school, by employing a Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) approach combined with Gini regression estimates. The data are taken from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for...