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The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …

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The Democratic Transition

Murtin, Fabrice; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary schooling, and …

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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-95

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).

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Endogenous Growth, Human Capital, and Industry Wages

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Lucas' 1988 model of the external effects of human capital formation is used as a starting point for an analysis of the impact of human capital on wages. Most empirical tests of new growth theory are based on time-series and cross-section data. This paper suggests a microeconometric approach to...

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Women, Medieval Commerce, and the Education Gender Gap

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

commerce quickly dissipates after national compulsory primary schooling is imposed at Unification, suggesting that the channel …

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Education and Household Welfare

Fafchamps, Marcel; Shilpi, Forhad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

education.We focus on fertility, child survival, schooling, and child labor. Female education is not as strongly associated with … the association between educational rank and outcomes is strong: women who obtain more schooling than their peers in …

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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that introduced minimum quotas for the land that parents should devolve on their children. This policy differentially affected ethnic groups depending on their descent rules:...

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Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

institutions. We find that landownership concentration, a proxy for the institution of serfdom, has a negative effect on schooling …

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...

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