Educational Expansion: Evidence and Interpretation

The authors document the vast expansion of schooling over the past several decades, as well as convergence in schooling measures across countries. They make the observation that poor countries today have higher average education levels than countri...

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Main Authors:	Gradstein, Mark, Nikitin, Denis
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE VALUE ADVANCED COUNTRIES AGGREGATE LEVEL ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE LEVEL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK COUNTRY EFFECTS COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CROSS COUNTRY DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION INDICATORS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EDUCATIONAL ENROLLMENT EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION ELASTICITY EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL REGULARITIES EMPIRICAL SUPPORT ENDOGENOUS GROWTH ENROLLMENT EQUAL ACCESS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATION RESULTS EXPECTED UTILITY EXPORTS FIXED EFFECTS GDP PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE GROWTH THEORIES HUMAN CAPITAL IMPORTS INCOME INCOME EFFECT INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INCOMES INEQUALITY INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR FORCE LEISURE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION MARGINAL COST MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY NATIONAL CURRICULUM NEGATIVE EFFECT NEGATIVE SIGN OPEN ECONOMIES PAPERS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POOR COUNTRIES POPULATION GROWTH POSITIVE EFFECT PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PROFICIENCY PUBLIC EXPENDITURE PUBLIC GOODS PUBLIC SPENDING REAL GDP REGIONAL DUMMIES REGRESSION RESULTS SCHOOL QUALITY SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOLING SECONDARY SCHOOLS SKILLED LABOR SOCIAL NORMS STANDARD DEVIATION STATISTICAL ANALYSIS STATISTICAL DATA TAX RATES TECHNOLOGY FRONTIER TERTIARY EDUCATION TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION UNSKILLED LABOR UTILITY FUNCTION WORLD INEQUALITY EDUCATIONAL EXPANSION EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS COMPLETION RATES EDUCATIONAL THEORY EDUCATION & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INTERTEMPORAL CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
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