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Do better schools lead to more growth?: Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Do better schools lead to more growth?: Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

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Do better schools lead to more growth?: Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

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Do better schools lead to more growth?: Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Publisher

Boston: Springer

Journal title

Journal of economic growth (Boston, Mass.), 2012-12, Vol.17 (4), p.267-321

Language

English

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Boston: Springer

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Contents

We develop a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time. Cross-country growth regressions generate a close relationship between educational achievement and GDP growth that is remarkably stable across extensive sensitivity analyses...

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Do better schools lead to more growth?: Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1230592223

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1230592223

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ISSN

1381-4338,1573-7020

E-ISSN

1573-7020

DOI

10.1007/s10887-012-9081-x

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