The Quality vs. the Quantity of Schooling: What Drives Economic Growth?
This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann’s [2008] contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling determines a nation’s rate of economic growth. I first show that their statistical analysis is flawed. I then show that when a nation’s average test scores and average schooling attain...
- Autores:
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Breton, Theodore R.
- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2011
- Institución:
- Universidad EAFIT
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EAFIT
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/2438
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10784/2438
- Palabra clave:
- Cognitive Skills
Human Capital
Education
Schooling
Economic Growth
- Rights
- License
- Acceso abierto
| Summary: | This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann’s [2008] contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling determines a nation’s rate of economic growth. I first show that their statistical analysis is flawed. I then show that when a nation’s average test scores and average schooling attainment are included in a national income model, both measures explain income differences, but schooling attainment has greater statistical significance. The high correlation between a nation’s average schooling attainment, cumulative investment in schooling, and average tests scores indicates that average schooling attainment implicitly measures the quality as well as the quantity of schooling. |
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