Edwards, Jeremy - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-3, pp. 1-33
Although European economic history provides essentially no support for the view that education of the general population has a positive causal effect on economic growth, a recent paper by Becker, Hornung and Woessmann (Education and Catch-Up in the Industrial Revolution, 2011) claims that such...