This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and
summarizes the results of my own work on the subject. On balance, the available evidence …

We present a new data set for years of schooling across countries for the 1960–2000 period.
The series are constructed from the OECD database on educational attainment and from …

THE PAST DECADE HAS seen an explosion of empirical research on economic growth and
its determinants, yet many of the central issues of interest remain unresolved. For instance …

We construct estimates of educational attainment for a sample of 21 OECD countries. Our
series incorporate previously unexploited information and remove sharp breaks in the data …

This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality.
The database includes 163 countries and regions over 1965-2015. The globally comparable …

Various authors find that in OECD countries the cross-country correlation between the total
fertility rate and the female labour force participation rate turned from a negative value …

The report by Professors Ángel de la Fuente and Antonio Ciccone looks into the economic
return on investment in human resources as compared with other investments. It links this …

In this paper, we propose a new distribution, named unit log–log distribution, defined on the
bounded (0, 1) interval. Basic distributional properties such as model shapes, stochastic …

This paper empirically investigates the potential determinants of business-sector R&D
intensity using a panel of OECD (countries for the period of 1975–2002 with data measured …

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 …