Economic history; development of the world economy since AD 1000; the Great Divergence; international comparisons of productivity; wars and economic performance
I study education using the tools of applied economics: schools (choice, competition, accountability), teachers (effectiveness, development, pay), and pupils (motivations, effort, ethnicity)
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