This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic missionaries in 1911 as an instrument for current tertiary education. We find Catholic missionaries have a...

This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic missionaries in 1911 as an instrument for current tertiary education. We find Catholic missionaries have a...

This paper analyzes whether mass education is more growth enhancing in developing countries than having a minority well educated elite. Using Indian Census data as a benchmark and enrollment rates at different levels of education, we compute annual attainment levels for a panel of 16 Indian...

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the effect of the government size per capita on the steady-state level of output and on the growth rate differs between LDC’s and developed countries. It is shown that an increase in government size will increase the steady-state level of output...

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the effect of the government size per capita on the steady‐state level of output and on the growth rate differs between LDC’s and developed countries. It is shown that an increase in government size will increase the steady‐state level of...