We sought to empirically model the augmented Solow-Swan (1956) growth model as documented by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) by incorporating human capital as a factor of production. This was necessary in order to address the shortcomings of the basic Solow-Swan (1956) growth model. Under the...

Coal production rose by a thousandfold over the last four decades in Indonesia. This paper documents the contemporaneous and long-run effects of this tremendous resource boom on children’s educational outcomes using census and district-level panel data. I exploit geographic and temporal...

This paper examines the burden of HIV/AIDS on income groups (upper and lower income earners) in Nigeria, its impacts on human capital development and economic growth. Income differential (indicator variable), the relative difference in income per capita of the quintile group, life expectancy,...

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took...

This paper develops an OLG model with endogenous fertility and education decisions to analyze the impact of transportation infrastructure on economic growth. The study argues that there is an optimal distribution of infrastructure in the region to boost the transition of an economy from economic...

The problems of Italy’s education system mostly stem from its modus operandi and interactions with the expectations of families and students. The recent signs of improvement in Italian students’ proficiency, plausibly reflecting greater emphasis on rigour, could be reinforced by making...