Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...

"This paper develops a human capital measure in the sense of Schultz (1960) and then reevaluates the contribution of human capital to China's economic growth. The results indicate that human capital plays a much more important role in China's economic growth than available literature suggests,...

Part I Human Capital in the Form of Education, Demographic Change, and Their Economic Implications -- Chapter 1: The Non-linearity in the Relationship Between Human Capital and Growth; Alessandra Pelloni, Thanasis Stengos, and Fabrizio Valenti -- Chapter 2: Optimal Life-Cycle Education Decisions...