Social Capital and Innovation in East Asia Seo-Young Cho∗ This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and innovation in high-performing East Asian economies. Rapid economic growth and innovation in these economies contradicts the presumed…
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Government Intervention, Institutional Quality,
Government Intervention, Institutional Quality, and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific, 1988–2014 Bertrand Blancheton and Dina Chhorn∗ We examine the linear and nonlinear long-run relationship between public expenditure and institutional quality, and income…
International Comparisons of Poverty
International Comparisons of Poverty in South Asia TM Tonmoy Islam, David Newhouse, and Monica Yanez-Pagans∗ This paper explores the methodological differences underlying the construction of the national consumption aggregates that are used to estimate international…
Education–Occupation Mismatch and Its Wage
Education–Occupation Mismatch and Its Wage Penalties in Informal Employment in Thailand Tanthaka Vivatsurakit and Jessica Vechbanyongratana∗ This study examines the incidence of vertical mismatch among formal and informal workers in Thailand. Using the 2011, 2013,…
Does Computer-Aided Instruction Improve
Does Computer-Aided Instruction Improve Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills? Hirotake Ito, Keiko Kasai, Hiromu Nishiuchi, and Makiko Nakamuro∗ This paper examines the causal effects of computer-aided instruction (CAI) on children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills. We…
Population Aging and the Three Demographic
Population Aging and the Three Demographic Dividends in Asia Naohiro Ogawa, Norma Mansor, Sang-Hyop Lee, Michael R.M. Abrigo, and Tahir Aris∗ The present study first examines the trends in age structural shifts in selected Asian…
Could Weather Fluctuations Affect Local
Could Weather Fluctuations Affect Local Economic Growth? Evidence from Counties in the People’s Republic of China Chengzheng Li, Jiajia Cong, and Haiying Gu∗ This paper uses historical fluctuations of weather variables within counties in the…
Trade Volatility in the Association of Southeast
Trade Volatility in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus Three: Impacts and Determinants Thi Nguyet Anh Nguyen, Thi Hong Hanh Pham, and Thomas Vallée∗ This paper investigates trade volatility in the Association of Southeast…
Analyzing the Sources of Misallocation in
Analyzing the Sources of Misallocation in Indian Manufacturing: A Gross-Output Approach Sujana Kabiraj∗ It is well established that misallocation of factor resources lowers productivity. In this paper, I use data from both formal and informal…
Impacts of an Information and Communication
Impacts of an Information and Communication Technology-Assisted Program on Attitudes and English Communication Abilities: An Experiment in a Japanese High School Yuki Higuchi, Miyuki Sasaki, and Makiko Nakamuro∗ We conducted a randomized experiment targeting 322…