This paper studies the impact of parental information and beliefs about student performance and college admissions on education investments in China.

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This paper reports on results of a field experiment in Argentina that tests to what extent the lack of information about the steps needed to graduate and the returns to education may prevent…

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This post looks at nepotism in one country's civil service - what it means for promotions and the quality of civil servants. It also looks at an effort to cut back on this and how it plays…

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Bringing workers of different backgrounds together causes an initial drop in productivity for high interaction tasks, but this goes away as they figure out how to work together

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Improving property rights can improve the allocation of resources and create a more financially inclusive society.

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Deportations of Mexican workers are shown to reduce earnings for other workers in the communities they go back to, and spur new undocumented migration.

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