This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the…
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Federalism theorists debate the desirability of funding local services from local revenues or inter-governmental grants. Tiebout expects…
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to…
This book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research.…
Employment rates fell dramatically between March and April 2020 as the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic reverberated through the U.S…
We test for financial constraints as a market failure in education in a low-income country by experimentally allocating unconditional cash…