World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 31, No. 3

What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World - David McKenzie and Anna Luisa Paffhausen

Does Financial Education Impact Financial Literacy and Financial Behavior, and If So, When? -Tim Kaiser and Lukas Menkhoff

A First Step up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household’s Welfare in Rural Rwanda -Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters, and Maximiliane Sievert

The Cost of Fear: The Welfare Effect of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda - Marc Rockmore

Identifying Gazelles: Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential -Marcel Fafchamps and Christopher Woodruff

On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics - Alex Eble, Peter Boone, and Diana Elbourne

Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation - Kurt Annen and Luc Moers

The Impacts of India’s Food Security Policies on South Asian Wheat and Rice Markets - Nelson Benjamin Villoria and Elliot Wamboka Mghenyi

Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother’s Labor Supply -Dante Contreras and Paulina Sepúlveda

Can Agricultural Interventions Improve Child Nutrition? Evidence from Tanzania - Anna Folke Larsen and Helene Bie Lilleør

The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children - Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, and José Rosero

The Effect of a Transfer Program for the Elderly in Mexico City on Co-Residing Children’s School Enrollment - Emilio Gutierrez, Laura Juarez, and Adrian Rubli

Wages of Chagrin

This article from The Economist discusses:

Naidu, S., Nyarko, Y., & Wang, S. Y. (2016). Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Political Economy, 124(6), 1735-1792.

Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan: A Brief Review of the Academic Migration Literature

This paper presents key findings on the international experience with migration, focusing on the implications for a developing nation that is a country of origin. The paper identifies several areas of impacts: (1) increases in wages of individual migrants; (2) remittances; (3) impacts on skills and skill formation – those leaving acquire skills to enhance ability to migrate, and those returning often do so with acquired skills and work experience. 

Mobility, Human Capital, Remittances, and Economic Transformation

Migration and its related remittances is now an important feature of many economies, both the source countries and many destination countries.

Actors of Change in Africa: Human Capital and Markets

In this paper I will be presenting two ideas that I think are critical to economic development. The two ideas are markets and human capital.

The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries

Labor mobility is particularly significant in the case of the GCC; the region is host to around 15 million expatriate workers who generate US $80 billion in annual remittances each year and support and estimate 150 million dependents in their various home countries.

The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some computations using data from Ghana

We look at the decision of the government or “central planner” in the allocation of scarce governmental resources for tertiary education, as well as that for the individual. We provide estimates of the net present values, or cost and benefits.

EU Policies and African Human Capital Development

Brain Circulation between the European Union (EU) and Sub-Saharan Africa is a crucial ingredient in Human Capitol formation in the latter. A major constraint to African development is the very low base of skilled and highly educated workers and professionals.

Africa and the Arab Gulf: A New Economic and Political Alliance?

Does the relationship between the Arab Gulf and Africa hold the promise of greatly enhanced and mutually beneficial trade and investment?

Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?

We build upon recent literature to do several exercises to assess benefits and costs of the brain drain to Africa. Contrary to a lot of the worries expressed in the media and in aid agencies, the brain drain is probably a net benefit to the source countries…

The New Growth Theory

This paper very briefly summarizes some of the new growth theory in economics. The emphasis will be on the role of knowledge in the growth process.

Stepping-stone mobility

People at the top of an occupational ladder earn more partly because they have spent time on lower rungs, where they have learned something. But what precisely do they learn?

The Bayesian Foundations of Learning by Doing

This paper explores a one-agent Bayesian model of learning by doing and technological choice. To produce output, the agent can choose among various technologies…

A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves

Where does technological progress come from and what determines its rate of advance? In answering these questions, it is useful to decompose technological progress into the invention of new techniques and products and the improvement of existing ones.

The Transfer of Human Capital

Most of our productive knowledge was handed down to us by previous generations. The transfer of knowledge from the old to the young is therefore a cornerstone of productivity growth.