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Cognitive Skills, Schooling Attainment, and Schooling Resources: What Drives Economic Growth?
(2009-11-15)
This paper presents evidence that students’ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are not a good proxy for a nation’s stock of human capital. Across countries test scores rise with increases in human capital up to $40,000/adult ...
Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Revised Estimates
(2010-08-18)
This article presents revised estimates of the external rates of return on investment in schooling provided in “Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?” The analysis is based on data for the same ...
Does investment in schooling raise national income? Evidence from cross-country studies
(2011-06-05)
The economics literature identifies three effects of schooling on national income; the direct effect on the earnings of the workers who receive the schooling and the external effects on workers’ earnings and on physical ...
Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil Right? A reconciliation of the Micro and Macro Effects of Schooling on Income.
(2011-10-03)
The marginal product of human capital in Mankiw, Romer, and Weil’s [1992] augmented Solow model measures the direct and two external effects of human capital created from schooling on national income. If this model is ...
Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?
(Universidad EAFIT, 2007-05-01)
This paper uses a new data set for cumulative national investment in formal schooling and a newinstrument for schooling to estimate the national return on investment in 61 countries. These estimates are combined with data ...
The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
(2012-09-24)
Students’ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have ...
Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil right? A reconciliation of the micro and macro effects of schooling on income.
(Cambridge University, 2013-07)
In Mankiw, Romer, and Weil's augmented Solow model [Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (2) 407–437 (1992)], the marginal product of human capital accrues to three factors of production: directly to human capital, and as ...
The Quality vs. the Quantity of Schooling: What Drives Economic Growth?
(Elsevier, 2011)
This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann's (2008) contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling determines a nation's rate of economic growth. I first show that their statistical analysis is flawed. I ...
Education and Growth: Where All the Education Went
(Universidad EAFIT, 2016-02-01)
We investigate why the economics literature often finds a negative relationship between
increased schooling and GDP growth over short periods. We show that increases in GDP in 98 countries during five-year intervals are ...
The Quality vs. the Quantity of Schooling: What Drives Economic Growth?
(Universidad EAFIT, 2011-01-19)
This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann’s [2008] contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling determines a nation’s rate of economic growth. I first show that their statistical analysis is flawed. I ...
