The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.

Students’ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above 400 an...

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Breton, Theodore R.
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2012
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Universidad EAFIT
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eng
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Cognitive Skills
Human Capital
Education
Schooling
Economic Growth
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title The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
spellingShingle The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
World
Cognitive Skills
Human Capital
Education
Schooling
Economic Growth
title_short The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
title_full The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
title_fullStr The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
title_full_unstemmed The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
title_sort The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited.
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Breton, Theodore R.
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Breton, Theodore R.
dc.subject.keyword.eng.fl_str_mv World
Cognitive Skills
Human Capital
Education
Schooling
Economic Growth
topic World
Cognitive Skills
Human Capital
Education
Schooling
Economic Growth
description Students’ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above 400 and average schooling attainment cause national income, while the share above 600 and the share with post-secondary schooling do not. Implicitly the best long-term development strategy for poor countries is to increase the share of students who complete primary and secondary schooling.
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