The stylized fact that there is no correlation between long-run economic growth and financial globalization has spawned a recent literature…
When Barack Obama steps into the Oval Office for the first time as president, he will be in the unique position of having earned the…
Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of…
Buffeted by recession, our nation has elected a president determined to act. President-elect Obama's advisers have called for a vast…
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Philippe Aghion and Diego Comin, January 4, 2009, Paper. "Can a country grow…
After the global economic turbulence of 2008, what does the future hold? This is unusually hard to call. Consider two scenarios.
First let…
Labor rights are the first to come up for criticism when accounts of human rights are offered in response to philosophical questions about…
The article discusses the process of teacher certification, noting that
all states have a standard certification process requiring a…