The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper examines recent studies that estimate the impact of education on economic growth. It explains why cross-country regressions face formidable econometric problems. Recent studies are reviewed: some show strong impacts of education on economic growth; others show little effect. All have mult...

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Main Authors:	Glewwe, Paul, Maiga, Eugénie, Zheng, Haochi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Elsevier 2014
Subjects:	education economic growth school quality
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18201

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spelling	okr-10986-182012021-04-23T14:03:43Z The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa Glewwe, Paul Maiga, Eugénie Zheng, Haochi education economic growth school quality This paper examines recent studies that estimate the impact of education on economic growth. It explains why cross-country regressions face formidable econometric problems. Recent studies are reviewed: some show strong impacts of education on economic growth; others show little effect. All have multiple estimation problems, which may explain their divergent results. Evidence shows that education quality in Sub-Saharan Africa is much lower than in other developing countries. Estimates from three influential studies are extended; the results suggest that the impact of education on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is lower than in other countries, likely due to lower school quality. 2014-05-08T21:09:23Z 2014-05-08T21:09:23Z 2014-01-31 Journal Article World Development 0305-750X 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.021 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18201 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	This paper examines recent studies that estimate the impact of education on economic growth. It explains why cross-country regressions face formidable econometric problems. Recent studies are reviewed: some show strong impacts of education on economic growth; others show little effect. All have multiple estimation problems, which may explain their divergent results. Evidence shows that education quality in Sub-Saharan Africa is much lower than in other developing countries. Estimates from three influential studies are extended; the results suggest that the impact of education on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is lower than in other countries, likely due to lower school quality.
format	Journal Article
author	Glewwe, Paul Maiga, Eugénie Zheng, Haochi
author_facet	Glewwe, Paul Maiga, Eugénie Zheng, Haochi
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title	The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	contribution of education to economic growth : a review of the evidence, with special attention and an application to sub-saharan africa
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2014
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18201
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The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth : A Review of the Evidence, with Special Attention and an Application to Sub-Saharan Africa

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