“Human Capital Quality and Economic Growth”

“The estimation of the relationship between education and economic growth is marked by contradictions. These contradictions underline the lack of precision characterizing indicators of human capital. This paper constructs new indicators based on a pool of international surveys concerning pupil assessment. Thus, our new database, which includes 105 countries, makes it possible to confirm or not the positive relationship between education and growth. Taking into account the endogeneity of education, we measure a positive effect of qualitative indicators of human capital and the growth of countries between 1960 and 2000. The contribution of education to growth therefore appears significant, both from a quantitative and a qualitative point of view."

Nadir Altinok (IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - [CNRS : UMR5225] - [Université de Bourgogne])
Date: 2007-09-17
Keywords: Education quality ; Human capital ; Growth ; Development

URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:papers:halshs-00132531_v2&r=edu

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“Free Education: For Whom, Where and When?”

“This article analyzes the effect of free public education on fertility, private educational investments and human capital accumulation at different stages of economic development. The model shows that when fertility is endogenous parental human capital levels are crucial for implications of free education. At early stages of development, if parental human capital is low, free access to basic education may provide the only chance to leave poverty. In contrast, at advanced stages of development, if parental human capital is high, the availability of free education crowds out private educational investments, increases fertility and may be detrimental for growth.”

Leonid Azarnert

Keywords: free public education, private education, fertility, human capital, economic growth

Date: 2006-06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:deg:conpap:c011_024&r=edu

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“Education and economic growth”

“Contemporary views on the determinants of economic growth place education in centre stage. Yet the way in which education affects growth is not yet well understood. This paper begins by surveying the recent literature on the factors that affect growth, paying particular attention to education. It then proceeds to estimate a comprehensive model of growth, testing its robustness across regions of the world. Policy conclusions are drawn.”

Geraint Johnes
Keywords: growth, education, political economy
Date: 2006
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpaper:004210&r=edu

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“Schooling inequality and the rise of research”

“During the last twenty years the share of researchers in the workforce has been rising in OECD countries. The consistency of this pattern suggests that it is not a transitional phenomenon. This paper demonstrates that the rise of research can occur in the steady state when schooling inequality is declining. Comparative static analysis of a semi-endogenous growth model with a continuous distribution of skills shows that a reduction in skill inequality can have a variety of effects, which includes a rising share of researchers. Additionally, the height of the growth rate of mean educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on the proportion of researchers in the workforce, without causing it to grow.”

Bas Straathof
Keywords: Schooling inequality; Economic growth
Date: 2005-06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:deg:conpap:c010_012&r=edu

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