This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...

In the last decade or so, growth has come to occupy an increasingly important place among the interests of macroeconomists, displacing to some extent their previous preoccupation with the business cycle. This change is largely due to two factors. The first one is the realisation that, in terms...

This note develops a flexible methodology for splicing economic time series that avoids the extreme assumptions implicit in the procedures most commonly used in the literature. It allows the user to split the required correction to the older of the series being linked between its levels and...

Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...

This paper investigates the impact of public expenditures and taxation on economic growth using panel data for a sample of OECD countries. The empirical results suggest that fiscal policy influences growth through three main channels. First, the government contributes directly to factor...

We construct estimates of educational attainment for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources. We follow a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in classification...

En esta nota se analiza la financiacion definitiva de las comunidades autonomas de regimen comun en el ano 2012 a la luz de la liquidacion del istema correspondiente a dicho ano, que ha sido hecha publica recientemente por el Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Publicas (MHAP, 2014). En el...

En este trabajo se construyen series anuales del nivel educativo de la poblacion para Espana y sus regiones durante el periodo 1960-2011 utilizando la informacion que proporcionan los censos de poblacion. Estas series actualizan y mejoran las elaboradas en de la Fuente y Domenech (2006).