The paper uses data from the World Bank's Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to study the effect of farmer schooling on the application of high-yielding variety technology in Pakistan in 1990-91. Unlike previous studies of the role of schooling in agriculture in less-developed countries, it...

The paper explores a model in which growth is determined by a combination of human capital and technology adoption. At the heart of the model is the notion of "contiguous knowledge"--the idea that knowledge spreads out a certain distance. Because of this property of knowledge, a country can...