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 …

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 …

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 …

international tests, and growth. We take account of another fifteen years of growth and approximately twice as many test score … results. We treat the data first as a panel, relating growth only to test scores at earlier dates, and then as a cross …-section. In both cases we find the effect of schooling quality on growth to be statistically significant but substantially smaller …

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology … requires more resources, which lowers pre-tax and post-tax income inequality as well as growth. Using consistently defined …

findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … fertility, child mortality, and undernutrition, we estimate what the costs in terms of growth, and forgone fertility, mortality …

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is …, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … human capital should be extended to allow for decreasing returns to education and for differences in the quality of a year …

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect … sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across specifications, time periods …, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive skills when …

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth …-country distribution. Extensive sensitivity analyses of cross-country growth regressions generate remarkably stable results across … specifications, time periods, and country samples. In addressing causality, we find, first, significant growth effects of cognitive …

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is …, misspecifies the relationship between education and the stock of human capital. Based on human capital theory, the specification of … human capital should be extended to allow for decreasing returns to education and for differences in the quality of a year …