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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration 0 0 0 39 1 1 14 95
A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development 0 0 0 77 0 0 20 201
A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa 0 0 3 232 2 2 20 636
A Pacific Skills Visa: Improving Opportunities for Skilled Migration Throughout the Pacific Region 1 1 1 3 1 1 13 20
A Pacific Skills Visa: Improving Opportunities for Skilled Migration throughout the Pacific Region 0 0 1 15 2 3 12 36
A Tariff-Growth Paradox? Protection's Impact the World Around 1875-1997 0 0 2 503 5 7 28 1,690
Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth 0 0 1 285 1 1 11 800
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 0 17 0 0 10 37
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 1 1 0 0 12 17
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 2 25 0 0 14 69
Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 0 0 1 49 0 1 19 127
Brain Freeze: How International Student Exclusion Will Shape the STEM Workforce and Economic Growth in the United States 1 2 15 15 2 7 27 27
Class dismissed: The effect of international student exclusion on the US STEM workforce and economic growth 1 5 5 5 3 13 13 13
Climate Change and Migration: An Omnibus Overview for Policymakers and Development Practitioners 1 2 9 46 1 2 29 99
Closed Jaguar, Open Dragon: Comparing Tariffs in Latin America and Asia before World War II 0 0 0 83 0 1 14 653
Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-term Effect of Aid on Growth 1 1 5 462 2 5 40 1,547
Counting chickens when they hatch: The short-term effect of aid on growth 1 1 6 1,177 4 6 45 2,869
Der WHO-Verhaltenskodex: Eine gute Grundlage für die Rekrutierung von Gesundheitsfachkräften? 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 7
Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries 0 0 0 52 0 2 31 186
Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries 1 1 2 4 2 3 30 40
Do Cash Transfers Deter Migration? 0 1 1 1 0 2 13 18
Do Cash Transfers Deter Migration? 0 0 0 156 0 1 15 30
Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves? 0 0 0 89 0 1 8 557
Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration 2 2 9 156 4 7 38 446
Does Development Reduce Migration? 1 1 4 130 2 3 35 217
Does Development Reduce Migration? 0 0 1 42 0 1 10 136
Does Development Reduce Migration? 0 1 5 260 1 2 37 494
Economic and Magnet Effects of Work Authorization for Asylum Seekers: Descriptive Evidence from the United States 0 6 17 17 2 7 9 9
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? 0 0 0 67 1 2 25 257
Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers: Using Bilateral Cooperation to Fulfill the World Health Organization’s Global Code of Practice 0 0 2 2 0 2 18 20
Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe 0 0 0 2 2 2 18 41
Expelling Excellence: Exchange Visitor Restrictions on High-Skill Migrants in the United States 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 14
From Root Causes to Shared Gains: Migration Policy for Low-Income Countries in a Labor-Scarce World 0 0 27 27 0 1 19 19
From Root Causes to Shared Gains: Migration Policy for Low-Income Countries in a Labor-Scarce World 0 0 4 4 0 1 8 8
Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target 0 0 0 52 0 1 21 293
Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target 0 0 0 166 0 1 11 608
Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 25
Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries 0 0 0 33 1 2 11 69
Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World 0 0 1 2 0 0 18 27
Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment 0 0 0 147 1 4 28 648
Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment 0 0 0 30 0 1 19 89
Immigrant-Native Wage Gaps and Immigration Tariffs: Examining the Case for an H-1B Visa Tax 0 0 31 31 1 6 29 29
Immigrant-Native Wage Gaps and Immigration Tariffs: Examining the Case for an H-1B Visa Tax 0 0 16 16 3 17 30 30
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion 0 0 0 33 0 1 29 126
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion 0 0 1 104 1 5 28 550
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion 0 0 0 52 0 2 19 131
Income per natural: Measuring development as if people mattered more than places 0 0 0 64 0 1 11 363
Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply 0 0 0 8 1 1 23 35
Labour Mobility with Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply 0 0 1 1 1 1 19 26
Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development 0 0 0 12 0 1 16 77
Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development 0 0 2 36 1 1 16 70
Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development 0 0 0 96 0 2 19 320
Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships 0 0 0 1 1 2 16 20
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment 0 0 0 56 0 0 25 66
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment 0 0 0 28 1 1 12 72
Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances 0 0 0 160 1 2 32 280
Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances (2014) 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 12
Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances (2014) 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 16
Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances (2014) 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 59
Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development 0 0 0 110 0 4 39 298
Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity and Simpson's Paradox 0 0 0 22 1 4 16 67
Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson's Paradox 1 1 1 50 3 4 22 159
Migration from Developing Countries: Selection, Income Elasticity, and Simpson’s Paradox 0 0 2 11 1 2 31 65
Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility 0 0 1 46 0 0 26 75
Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility 1 1 3 34 1 1 27 44
Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility 0 0 0 44 1 2 15 47
Migration or stagnation: Aging and economic growth in Korea today, the world tomorrow 0 0 0 40 1 2 27 48
Mobiles and mobility: The Effect of Mobile Phones on Migration in Niger 0 0 0 151 0 3 16 692
Modernizing the US Exchange Visitor Skills List 0 0 0 2 1 2 9 13
Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border 0 0 0 3 0 0 20 28
Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border 0 0 0 3 0 0 10 21
Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals 0 0 0 14 0 1 9 23
Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals 0 0 1 3 0 0 13 18
People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil 0 0 0 2 0 0 13 26
Seize the Spotlight: A Case for Gulf Cooperation Council Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration 0 0 0 35 0 0 5 139
Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College 0 0 0 46 0 1 17 102
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development 0 1 2 101 2 5 26 568
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development 0 0 0 56 0 1 19 229
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development 0 0 0 53 1 3 10 241
Skilled emigration and skill creation: A quasi-experiment 0 0 0 141 1 3 23 493
Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work 0 0 2 19 1 2 18 137
Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work 0 0 1 49 1 3 21 151
Split Decisions: Family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work 0 0 0 52 1 1 12 177
Split decisions: family finance when a policy discontinuity allocates overseas work 0 0 0 58 1 1 10 115
Taxes on High-Skill Immigration: Demand and Supply Response in the International Student-OPT-Work Visa Pipeline 10 10 10 10 13 14 14 14
Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation 0 0 1 1 0 0 8 9
Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation 0 0 0 18 0 0 7 55
Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf 0 0 0 27 1 1 21 62
Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf 0 0 0 20 1 3 14 48
The Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Refining U.S. Military Capabilities in Stability and In-Conflict Development Activities 0 0 2 35 1 5 32 212
The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Granting Refugees Formal Labor Market Access 0 0 6 72 1 2 38 294
The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers 0 1 2 34 0 5 46 94
The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers 0 0 1 4 0 4 56 67
The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment: A Job-Specific Approach and Application to North Carolina Farms 0 0 0 36 1 1 22 124
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery 0 0 1 10 0 6 18 39
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery 0 0 0 11 0 1 9 18
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery 0 0 2 19 0 1 16 42
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery 0 0 0 18 1 5 12 27
The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession 0 0 0 31 0 0 23 79
The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries 0 0 0 4 2 3 39 60
The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries 0 1 7 51 1 4 46 191
The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates 0 0 0 9 1 3 56 81
The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates 0 0 0 39 1 1 35 116
The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates 0 0 2 22 0 2 26 48
The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates 0 1 2 23 3 8 65 99
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results 0 0 1 20 1 2 22 75
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results 0 0 0 87 1 2 14 170
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results 0 0 0 48 1 1 11 102
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results 0 0 0 57 0 0 13 93
The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 151 0 0 15 822
The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective 0 0 0 316 0 4 15 1,156
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal 0 0 1 37 4 5 24 125
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal 0 0 0 79 0 2 44 177
The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough? 0 0 0 196 0 1 9 725
The New Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 0 48 0 2 19 121
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 0 28 2 10 29 238
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 0 0 0 3 26 28
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 1 91 0 2 17 192
The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment 0 0 1 37 1 4 20 100
The New Role of the World Bank 0 0 0 36 1 1 23 167
The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy 0 0 0 64 0 1 21 167
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 12
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border 0 0 0 28 2 6 17 238
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border 0 2 3 205 2 11 61 1,079
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 0 1 3 113 1 8 34 592
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 0 0 2 71 0 2 18 272
The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas 0 0 0 57 0 1 26 368
The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success 0 0 0 188 0 0 13 757
The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success 0 0 1 702 0 0 17 2,119
The WHO global code of practice: A useful guide for recruiting health care professionals? Lessons from Germany and beyond 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 12
The effect of lawful crossing on unlawful crossing at the US southwest border 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 24
The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers: Evidence from a randomized lottery 0 1 1 1 1 4 4 4
The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers: Evidence from a randomized lottery 0 0 0 6 0 0 15 34
The labor market effects of refugee waves: reconciling conflicting results 0 0 0 26 0 1 7 49
The labor market effects of refugee waves: reconciling conflicting results 0 0 0 32 0 1 13 102
The labour market impact of refugee waves 0 0 1 66 0 1 7 147
The place premium: wage differences for identical workers across the US border 0 0 2 60 4 5 31 269
Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions 0 0 2 39 2 2 20 103
Violence, Development, and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions 0 0 0 30 0 0 14 99
When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference ? the case of the millennium villages 0 0 1 107 1 2 16 237
When is the Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Development Projects a Luxury, and When Is It a Necessity? 0 0 0 48 1 1 10 194
Where did British Foreign Capital Go? Fundamentals, Failures and the Lucas Paradox: 1870-1913 0 0 0 393 1 2 21 1,462
Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938 1 3 5 257 3 5 12 786
Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Reverse After 1950? 0 0 1 199 17 18 43 711
Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? 0 0 4 159 3 4 41 465
Why don't remittances appear to affect growth ? 0 0 2 183 1 69 90 399
World Bank Capital Neither Complements Nor Substitutes for Private Capital 0 0 0 20 0 0 6 181
Total Working Papers 23 47 258 11,105 146 439 3,075 36,404


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A Case Against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration 0 0 0 10 0 2 13 111
Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth 1 2 10 290 1 4 45 871
Coordination et utilisations des aides. Commentaires 0 0 0 7 0 0 10 37
Counting Chickens when they Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth 0 2 16 332 0 4 50 908
Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low‐Income Countries 1 1 3 15 1 1 26 68
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? 0 0 2 169 3 7 60 824
Genuine Savings Rates in Developing Countries 0 0 0 1 0 2 29 1,672
Global Skill Partnerships: a proposal for technical training in a mobile world 0 0 1 26 1 2 11 163
Human capital investment under exit options: Evidence from a natural quasi-experiment 0 2 3 7 2 6 16 38
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion 0 1 2 49 1 3 21 297
Income per Natural: Measuring Development for People Rather Than Places 0 0 0 58 0 1 18 233
L'affrontement entre les objectifs de développement et l'évaluation d'impact. The Collision of Development Goals and Impact Evaluation 0 0 0 15 1 1 5 58
Labour Mobility With Vocational Skill: Australian Demand and Pacific Supply 0 0 0 5 0 3 17 31
Losing our minds? New research directions on skilled emigration and development 0 0 1 21 1 2 19 86
Migration and Development Research is Moving Far Beyond Remittances 0 0 0 95 1 1 9 275
Migration and household finances: How a different framing can improve thinking about migration 0 0 3 24 1 4 22 68
Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox 2 2 12 21 5 12 67 96
Migration on the Rise, a Paradigm in Decline: The Last Half-Century of Global Mobility 0 0 0 12 0 0 20 55
Patrick Kingsley The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis New York: Liveright Publishing, 2017. 351 p. $26.95 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 38
Reprint of: Migration and Development Research is Moving Far Beyond Remittances 0 0 1 61 0 0 13 151
Reserve design for species preservation 0 0 0 19 0 0 9 151
Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College 0 0 1 8 0 1 6 53
Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants 0 0 0 4 0 0 8 46
Split Decisions: Household Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work 0 1 5 85 2 4 16 258
THE MEANING OF FAILED REPLICATIONS: A REVIEW AND PROPOSAL 0 0 2 16 2 12 39 136
Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation: a preliminary impact evaluation 0 0 0 2 0 1 10 36
Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf 0 0 1 4 0 0 10 34
The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery 0 1 1 1 2 8 10 10
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results 1 1 3 26 3 4 24 110
The New Role for the World Bank 0 0 0 40 1 2 17 199
The New Transparency in Development Economics 0 0 1 18 0 3 12 75
The Place Premium: Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers 1 5 18 114 3 11 102 503
The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success 0 0 1 307 0 0 27 935
The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers 0 0 1 10 0 3 28 62
The effect of seasonal work visas on native employment: Evidence from US farm work in the Great Recession 0 0 1 13 1 3 14 44
The ghost of 0.7 per cent: origins and relevance of the international aid target 0 0 0 31 3 5 16 121
The new economic case for migration restrictions: An assessment 0 0 7 80 2 4 46 488
Violence, development, and migration waves: Evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions 0 1 2 24 3 8 32 110
Wage arbitrage through skilled emigration: Evidence from the Pacific Islands 0 0 1 2 0 3 20 27
Wealth bias in the first global capital market boom, 1870-1913 0 0 0 160 1 3 15 560
When does rigorous impact evaluation make a difference? The case of the Millennium Villages 0 0 5 55 1 3 19 197
Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas 0 2 4 98 0 5 22 334
Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? 0 0 5 44 1 3 30 225
Why did the Tariff--Growth Correlation Change after 1950? 2 2 3 386 17 21 31 1,054
Why were Latin America's tariffs so much higher than Asia's before 1950? 0 0 0 12 0 1 11 60
Total Journal Articles 8 23 116 2,778 60 163 1,046 11,908
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Geometry for the Classroom 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 5
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Computer Programs 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Does development reduce migration? 0 0 5 83 3 8 78 445
Intuition 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 4
Proof 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5
Total Chapters 0 0 5 83 4 10 92 459


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