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
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18201