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An alternative interpretation of "average years of education" in growth regressions

Földvári, Péter; Leeuwen, Bas van - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 7/9, pp. 945-949

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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth

Balart, Pau - 2015

Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...

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Education quality and the empirics of economic growth : reconciling Mankiw-Romer-Weil estimates with microeconometric evidence

Rodrigues, Mauro; Souza, Danilo Paula de - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 6, pp. 470-476

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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Education and Growth with Learning by Doing

Marconi, Gabriele - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium overlapping generations model which is based on the view that education makes workers … increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on … relationship between education and economic growth that has been found in the empirical macroeconomic literature. Conversely, for a …

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