The paper starts from the critiques to the Barro-style methodology for convergence analysiswith the aim of reviewing … convergence inEurope that cannot be adequately captured by the non-spatial growth regression models thathave dominated the … research and policy debate in this field. Evidence for convergence andspatial dependence emerges especially when estimations …

and allow convergence of incomes towards their average. This indicates the potential role of education in not only …