By Gita Smith

By Gita Smith

Although growing online globalization has increased the presence of other languages on the internet, English remains dominant – used by 59.4 percent of all the websites whose content language is known.

By Gita Smith

By Gita M. Smith 

By Gita Smith

By Gita Smith

Economists have long studied how personal income and relative deprivation affect social outcomes such as education, bullying/victimization, and health.

By Gita Smith 

It is known that imposing sanctions against a country can restrict its ability to do business, putting political and economic pressure on the target country. But can sanctions also adversely affect the imposing country?

By Gita Smith

Job task complexity plays a central role in the development of problem-solving skills by workers, according to research by Haizheng Li, a faculty member of Georgia Tech’s School of Economics. Along with co-author Qinyi Liu at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing. Liu received her PhD in Economics from Georgia Tech in 2018 and Li was her advisor. Li provides new empirical evidence on skill formation via job tasks. The paper focuses on how a worker becomes more productive through learning-by-doing during on-the-job training.

By Gita Smith 

Is access to higher education an important consideration when undocumented migrants choose where they want to live in the United States? Usha Nair-Reichert, Associate Professor of Economics at Georgia Tech explores this question in a study, “Location Choices of Undocumented Migrants: Does Access to Higher Education Matter?”