A note on schooling in development accounting


Autoria(s): Caselli, Francesco, 1966-; Ciccone, Antonio
Contribuinte(s)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa

Data(s)

10/07/2013

Resumo

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a non-parametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels with arbitrary patterns of substitution/complementarity. Another advantage is that the upper bound is robust to certain forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the necessary data, compare our results with the standard development accounting approach, and provide an update on the results using the standard approach for a large sample of countries.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/2072/214064

Direitos

Consulteu les condicions d'ús d'aquest document en el repositori original:<a href=""></a>

Palavras-Chave #schooling, productivity effects, upper bound
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/report