School autonomy and educational performance: within-country evidence

Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) in the hope that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In contrast with earlier literature that failed to find positive intra-industry spillovers from FDI

Evidence of the health-promoting influence of primary care has been accumu-lating ever since researchers have been able to distinguish primary care from other aspects of the health services delivery system. This evidence shows that primary care helps prevent illness and death, regardless of whether

, and on whether exchange rate passthrough rates are endogenous to a country’s macroeconomic conditions. We provide cross-country and time series evidence on both of these issues for the imports of twenty-five OECD countries. Across the OECD and especially within manufacturing industries, there is compelling

to white-collar and to blue-collar – but especially to white-collar – employees. An increase in the incentive for developing-country producers to export generates differential quality upgrading within industries, as more-productive firms increase exports and produce a greater share of high-quality goods

the empirical relationship between conflict in Africa since independence with recorded conflicts in the period 1400 to1700. We find evidence of a legacy of historical conflicts using betweencountry and within-country evidence. The latter is found by dividing the continent into 120km×120km grids and measuring

I establish a positive relationship between family ties and civic virtues, as captured by disapproval of tax and bene…t cheating, corruption, and a range of other dimensions of exploiting others for personal gain. I …nd that family ties are a complement to social capital, using within country

windfalls are disproportionately spent on urban goods and ser-vices, which gives rise to "consumption cities". I illustrate this theory us-ing both cross-country evidence and within-country evidence from Ivory Coast and Ghana using new data spanning one century and two identi-fication strategies

and evolution of social capital. We establish these results using within-country evidence and looking at the behavior of immigrants from various countries in 32 different destination places (JEL: P16, Z10, Z13).

at the evidence of East Asian regional and global convergence in health and education, alongside evidence from the region matching global evidence of a comparatively weak link between income growth and health and education growth. This finding is echoed by available within-country evidence from the region