This paper consolidates two previously disconnected literatures. It integrates R&D-based
innovations into a unified growth framework with micro-founded fertility and schooling …

This article analyses the school performance of migrants and peer group effects in different
national schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we …

Using 2.21 million pieces of data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China's Industrial
Enterprises Database, compiled during 1998–2013, we apply a static panel model and a …

This paper investigates empirically the effect of tax reform on fiscal space in developing
countries. The analysis has used an unbalanced panel dataset comprising 99 developing …

Unified growth theory predicts that the timing of the fertility transition is a key determinant of
contemporary comparative development, as it marks the onset of the take-off to sustained …

The article evaluates the relationship between the tax burden on labor and magic
quadrangle indicators in the Czech Republic in the years 1993 through 2020. The article …

The financial crisis and the debt crisis in Europe have led to pronounced swings in the $/€
exchange rate. The influence of this exchange rate uncertainty on exports is neither …

We examine the effects of both overall tax rate and changes in tax structure on growth by
using data for more than 100 high, middle, and low income countries by employing the GMM …

Corrupt arrangements are characterized by a high risk of opportunism: double-dealing,
whistle-blowing and extortion are significant uncertainties for participants in corrupt …

Workers in the US and other developed countries retire no later than a century ago and
spend a significantly longer part of their life in school, implying that they stay less years in …