Past research has determined using simple summary statistics that non-American, or “ethnic” restaurants score lower on their food safety inspections, even though they are not inspected significantly more often. Using a ...

To attract policy makers’ attention away from one-sided economic statistics and ambiguous progressive proposals toward exercisable strategies to promote human development, the Human Development Index (HDI) developed by ...

India, like many countries in the Global South finds itself in the midst of a demographic transition. Though lagging behind some nations like China, India is rapidly urbanizing and is set to cross the majority-urban mark ...

International trade markets are shaped by different standards and technical regulations across countries and regions affecting trade. This paper analyzes the relationship between international standards and exports for ...

Evidence suggests that students with good mental health tend to perform better than students with poor mental health on measures of academic achievement. Evidence also suggests that there is an achievement gap between ...