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Eric Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann, Lei Zhang In response to recent technological changes and the worsening outcomes of non-college-educated workers (Autor 2019), governments around the world are becoming more interested in whether different types of secondary education (vocational versus general) might play a role in providing young people the skills they need to succeed after they graduate (European Commission 2010, US Department of Education 2013, 2018). In stark contrast to the growing body of...

Published on 29 January 2021 This Working Paper analyses how violent conflict can enhance or reduce pre-existing forms of marginalisation and second, how new forms of marginalisation emerge as a result of violent conflict. To do so, we focus on the province of Tanganyika in the DRC, where the so-called ‘Twa-Bantu’ violent conflict has been disrupting the education sector since 2012, and secondarily on the province of Ituri, which has been affected by repe...

Press Release Hearing on Constitutional Amendments Thirty-three years ago, the 1987 Constitution came to fruition; a product of the hard work and dedication of the forty-four men and women comprising the 1986 Constitutional Commission. They drafted a historic document which they deemed as "truly reflective of the aspirations and ideals of the Filipino people."1 We fully respect the Framers of the Constitution. However, with the emergence of modern technology and unknown deadly viruses, it is my...

[co-author: Shawn Whites] Key Points President Biden’s Day One Executive Order on climate action reconvenes an interagency working group to establish interim and final social costs of three GHGs: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. The social costs of these GHGs seek to quantify the negative externalities on an annual basis of a ton of these emissions. The Biden administration will use the updated social cost figures to inform federal regulations and major agency actions and to justify...

The sovereign-bank-corporate nexus – virtuous or vicious? Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the LSE conference on “Financial Cycles, Risk, Macroeconomic Causes and Consequences” Frankfurt am Main, 28 January 2021 One year after the first cases were reported in Europe, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take a tragic human toll and to pose enormous challenges to workers, firms, the financial system and policymakers in the euro area. Witho...

Read more about RBI paper proposes new regulatory framework for NBFCs, 4-tier structure on Business Standard. The paper proposed a structure to categorise NBFCs, or shadow banks, depending on their size and interconnectedness with the system

Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini, David Yang 20 January 2021 Our beliefs about one another’s political attitudes tend to be substantially mis-calibrated. This column analyses the factors shaping voters’ ideas about the political attitudes of other voters among the US electorate. Starting from the premise that individuals are not equally interested in all issues, it finds that when issue salience changes, beliefs about political groups can shift dramatically even when the underlying fu...

Wolfgang Dauth, Sebastian Findeisen, Jens Südekum, Nicole Woessner The robots are coming. According to a widely cited study, about 47% of total US employment is susceptible to computerized automation (Frey and Rahbari 2016, Frey and Osborne 2017). A heated discussion, stimulated by the current wave of automation, concerns the future of work and society. Recent empirical studies highlight ways that the rising importance of robots in industrial production have transformed the labour market and ...

Application Deadline: January 15th 2021 The Middle East Initiative Research Fellowship Program, part of the Emirates Leadership Initiative, offers one-year fellowships for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy.  Eligibility The Middle East Initiative Research Fellowship Program offers one-year fellowships for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level for resear...

Faith and Mental Health Help Shape the Integration of Muslim Refugees in Germany Format By Diana Rayes Large influxes of asylum seekers and other migrants to Europe from Muslim-majority countries have inevitably led to a significant rise in the number of Muslims in Germany, who in 2016 made up nearly 6 percent of Germany’s population. Even with no future net migration, Muslims will likely represent 9 percent of the country’s population by 2050, the Pew Research Center estimates. The rapid s...