HI‐IAPT Portraits of botanists no. 57

Working Paper No. 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 57

Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size o...

Proposals by Czechoslovak Botanists

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Discussion Paper No . 2001 / 57 Debt Relief and Civil War

Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by greed to recruit followers, since ...