The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

This paper explores the interplay between economic freedom, foreign direct investment
(FDI) and economic growth using panel data analysis for a sample of 18 Latin American …

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 provides new measures of human capital inequality for a broad panel of
countries. Taking attainment levels from Barro and Lee, we compute Gini coefficients and …

Enrollment rates for higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa are by far the lowest in the
world at 6%. Yet because of conventional beliefs that tertiary education is less important for …

A review of the measures of the stock of human capital used in empirical growth research–
including adult literacy rates, school enrollment ratios, and average years of schooling of the …

We document that countries with higher initial education levels experienced faster value-
added and employment growth in schooling-intensive industries in the 1980s and 1990s …

Structural Funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the European Union to
promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process of convergence …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is
a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as …