“...Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age...”

“...We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities...”

“...Abstract We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We show that windfalls have no effect on...”

“...Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic...”

“...In skill-biased (de-skilling) technological revolutions learning investments required by new machines are greater (smaller) than those required by preexisting...”

“...We review the events that led to the May 2010 and July 2011 bailout agreements. We interpret the bailouts as outcomes of political-economy equilibria. We argue...”

“...We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the...”

“...We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences on cross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We...”

“...We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the determinants of computer-technology...”

“...This paper introduces various sources of consumer heterogeneity in one-sector representative consumer (RC) growth models and develops tools to study the...”