This paper investigates the impact of higher education on corporate innovation. To establish
causality, we exploit a policy-induced exogenous shock in the supply of Chinese college …

The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates
back to 2011, which is when India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality …

This article estimates the impact of completed higher education on economic prosperity
across Indian districts. To address the endogeneity of higher education, we use the location …

Foreign firms operating in emerging economies are increasingly exploiting and becoming
dependent on locally existing intangible resources such as intellectual skills, technological …

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in
modern growth theory-the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the …

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in
modern growth theory: the engineer. We construct a database on the share of engineers in …

This paper argues that inequality can be both good and bad for growth, depending on what
inequality and whose growth. Unequal societies may be holding back one segment of the …

This paper sheds light on the issue of internal migration for education and employment
among the youth. ie those aged 15-32 years. The paper is a first step towards addressing …

This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of
skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector …

It is important to determine whether China's unprecedented expansion of college education
(ECE) since 1999 has made a significant impact on the urban entrepreneurship and …