This paper explores the menu of options for renormalizing public debt levels relative to nominal activity in the long run, should…
We study the impact of providing school and child test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple…
It has been proposed that central banks should target Nominal GDP (NGDP), as an alternative to targeting the money supply, exchange rate,…
The incredibly low levels of learning and the generally dysfunctional public sector schooling systems in many (though not all) developing…
The comparative advantage of a location dictates its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…
This paper explores the impact of past and future growth in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People's Republic of…
Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly
low learning gains. Using data from…
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an…
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve
health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse…
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution,
environmental regulations, and infant mortality…