plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …

-Industrial-Revolution phenomena--the industrialization and growth take-off of rich "northern" nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …

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 …

increasing education and declining labor supply (of cohorts born 1850-1950) as an optimal response to increasing active life …-run economic development. -- longevity ; active life expectancy ; education ; hours worked ; economic growth. …

The paper examines the role of education in economic growth from both a theoretical and historic perspective, addresses … why education has been the limiting factor determining growth historically, provides estimates of the quantitative … importance of the direct and indirect effects of education on the economy, calculates the marginal national return on investment …