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The Contribution of Human Capital Formation to Post-War Economic Growth in Ireland
Walsh, Brendan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
education to economic development, this paper examines the performance of the Irish economy in the framework of a model of … relatively low. Possible explanations for this poor performance are explored. Neither the structure of education nor low rates of … returns to the increased investment in education undertaken in recent decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666960
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Education, Social Cohesion and Economic Growth
Gradstein, Mark; Justman, Moshe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791673
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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital
Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792394
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Growth Effects of Education and Social Capital in the OECD Countries
Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136728
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Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
Song, Zheng Michael; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083803
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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788942
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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262883
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Price Distortions and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Anderson, Kym; Brückner, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa’s slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that have discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy distortions to relative prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246604
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Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A Sceptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence
Rodríguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662074
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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe
Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period. The consequences of demographic developments for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662094