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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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/03/4067066/educational-expansion-evidence-interpretation-educational-expansion-evidence-interpretation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14122 |
| Summary: | 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 countries at the same level of
economic development had in the past. They propose a simple
model that suggests that these trends can be attributed to
the intertemporal expansion of the world technological
frontier, which enhances the demand for schooling. Their
empirical analysis supports the view that educational
expansion has occurred because of the increase in demand,
especially in open economies, and not because of
cost-reducing improvements in the education sector. |
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