Baten, Joerg; Jaeger, Kirsten - In: Brussels Economic Review 52 (2009) 3/4, pp. 289-304
We assess the impact of schooling and important patents in 1900 and 1910 on national income in the 1960s. Even controlling for GDP per capita in 1910, we find that both the effects of schooling and important patents were always statistically and economically significant. Growth successes of the...