Smart City policies have attracted relevant attention and funding over the last few years.
While the time seems now ripe to conclude that such policies have a positive impact on …

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000
universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th …

Milton Friedman argued that giving parents freedom to choose schools would improve
education. His argument was simple and compelling because it extended results from …

Large-scale agricultural investment has expanded rapidly over the past decade, justified
partly by the expectation that established smallholders will benefit from positive spillovers …

In the US, cognitive non-routine (CNR) occupations associated with higher wages are
disproportionately represented in larger cities. To study the allocation of workers across …

We employ finely geo-coded firm-level panel data to assess the long-standing question
whether agglomeration economies derive from specialization (within-industry), diversity …

We examine a large operational data set in a casual restaurant setting to study how
coworkers' sales ability level affects other workers' sales performance. We find that waiters …

The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education
and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard …

This study investigates the relationship between financial expenditure and carbon emission
reduction using provincial-level dynamic panel data from 1996 to 2010. A positive …

This paper revisits the effect of brain drain on development and inequality using a two-sector
model with formal and informal labor markets. Contrary to existing studies, we use a search …