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 tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …

the data on the quantity of schooling which have been most commonly used in the growth literature. This paper describes … variables in empirical analyses of the determinants of income and welfare levels and growth rates. A final section investigates …

retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. Premature adult mortality may exacerbate …

growth. …

achievement can account for a majority of international differences in economic growth and that institutional features of school …

the data on the quantity of schooling which have been most commonly used in the growth literature. This paper describes … variables in empirical analyses of the determinants of income and welfare levels and growth rates. A final section investigates …

economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … growth policy. We address issues like the scale effect problem, directed technological change to understand the evolution of …

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … has a negligible, possibly negative effect on the long-run growth rate of per capita income. Long-run growth is sustained …