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- Influence
Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth
- Michael A. Clemens, S. Radelet, Rikhil R. Bhavnani
- Economics
- 12 July 2004
Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely… Expand
Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth
- Michael A. Clemens, S. Radelet, Rikhil R. Bhavnani, Samuel A Bazzi
- Economics
- 1 June 2012
Recent research yields widely divergent estimates of the cross‐country relationship between foreign aid receipts and economic growth. We re‐analyse data from the three most influential published… Expand
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
- Michael A. Clemens
- Economics
- 1 August 2011
What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of people in… Expand
Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth
- Samuel A Bazzi, Michael A. Clemens
- Economics
- 27 March 2013
Concern has intensified in recent years that many instrumental variables used in widely-cited growth regressions may be invalid, weak, or both. Attempts to remedy this general problem remain… Expand
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the U.S. Border
- Michael A. Clemens, C. Montenegro, Lant H. Pritchett
- Economics
- 1 July 2008
This paper compares the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the United States-controlling for country of birth, country of education, years… Expand
Why did the Tariff–Growth Correlation Change after 1950?
- Michael A. Clemens, J. Williamson
- Economics
- 1 March 2004
This article uses a new database to establish a key finding: high tariffs were associated with fast growth before World War II, while they have been associated with slow growth thereafter. The paper… Expand
The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective
- Michael A. Clemens
- Economics
- 1 March 2004
Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing… Expand
New data on African health professionals abroad
- Michael A. Clemens, G. Pettersson
- Medicine
- Human resources for health
- 10 January 2008
BackgroundThe migration of doctors and nurses from Africa to developed countries has raised fears of an African medical brain drain. But empirical research on the causes and effects of the phenomenon… Expand
Does Development Reduce Migration?
- Michael A. Clemens
- Economics
- 18 March 2014
The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade… Expand
Wealth Bias in the First Global Capital Market Boom, 1870-1913
- Michael A. Clemens, J. Williamson
- Economics
- 1 April 2004
Why do rich countries receive the lion's share of international investment flows? Although this wealth bias is strong today, it was even stronger during the first global capital market boom before… Expand