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The contribution of education to economic growth : a review of the evidence, with special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
Glewwe, Paul; Maïga, Eugénie; Zheng, Haochi - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 59 (2014), pp. 379-393
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417696
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Inequality Affects Long-Run Growth : Cross-Industry, Cross-Country Evidence
Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2020
The theoretical literature has predicted that inequality affects long-run growth by reducing human and physical capital, particularly in the presence of imperfect credit markets and other contractual frictions. We test these four mechanisms using measures of inequality at the country-level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835129
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213777
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HEALTH, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TESTING FOR LONG-RUN RELATIONSHIPS AND CAUSAL LINKS in the United States
Aka, Bédia F.; Dumont, J.C. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 8 (2008) 2, pp. 101-110
This paper examines the causal relationships between human capital (Education, and Health) and Economic growth for the …-VAR investigations show bi-directional causality between Education and Health. Causality also exists from Education to Economic growth … show that the long-run dynamics of growth are slightly explained by past health and education level, and the health level …
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Education, Sectoral Composition and Growth
Kaboski, Joseph K. - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 168-182
with less unexplained growth. The theory distinguishes between three different sources of education gains: (1) supply …
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal (contributor); Chytilová, Julie (contributor) - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755176
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409398
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Vers une croissance plus inclusive en Tunisie
De la Maisonneuve, Christine; Larbi, Hédi; Dridi, Raja - 2018
Le niveau de vie moyen des Tunisiens a augmenté de façon continue depuis plusieurs décennies tandis que la pauvreté et les inégalités ont largement diminué grâce à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux programmes sociaux. L’accès aux infrastructures de base telles que l’eau potable ou...
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