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Chong, Alberto; Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2009

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their opinions matter, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to...

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Cross-country data on skills and the quality of schooling : a selective survey

Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2021

Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...

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Human capital and national institutional quality : are TIMSS, PISA, and national average IQ robust predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...

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The educational burden of ADHD : evidence from student achievement test scores

Dannemann, Bernhard C.; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This version: April 2018

This paper hypothesizes and empirically establishes the educational burden of the ADHD-related behavioral symptoms inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity on aggregate cognitive achievement outcomes. We use a novel compilation of the 2- and 7-repeat allele variants of the human DRD4 exon...

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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The Effect of Inequality on Poverty and Severity of Poverty in SSA : The Role of Financial Development Institutions

Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas - 2023

income inequality on poverty and the severity of poverty in 42 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2019. The Gini … index is used to measure income inequality while poverty is measured as the poverty headcount ratio, and the severity of … poverty is generated as the squared of the poverty gap index. An interactive quantile regression approach is used as an …

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Education and democratic preferences

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - 2009

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Education quality and the empirics of economic growth : reconciling Mankiw-Romer-Weil estimates with microeconometric evidence

Rodrigues, Mauro; Souza, Danilo Paula de - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 6, pp. 470-476

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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research reveals that human capital is mostly poorly proxied. The simple use of the most common proxy, average years of schooling of the working-age population, misspecifies the relationship between education and the...

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Specifying human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of economic surveys 17 (2003) 3, pp. 239-270

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