parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

of schooling on income and GDP growth. Much microeconometric evidence suggest that education is an important causal … determinant of income for individuals within countries. At a national level, however, recent studies have found that increases in … effect of changes in educational attainment on income growth in cross-country data is at least as great as microeconometric …