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Jong-Wha Lee
Researcher at Korea University
Publications - 229
Citations - 31598
Jong-Wha Lee is an academic researcher from Korea University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & Financial crisis. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 225 publications receiving 29962 citations. Previous affiliations of Jong-Wha Lee include Asian Development Bank & Pohang University of Science and Technology.
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How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of FDI on economic growth in a cross-country regression framework was investigated. And they found that FDI contributes to economic growth only when a sufficient absorptive capability of the advanced technologies is available in the host economy.
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International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries, and extended their previous estimates for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provided projections for 2000.
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A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010
Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee +1 more
TL;DR: Barro and Lee as mentioned in this paper used information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level.
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International data on educational attainment: updates and implications
Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries, and they extend their previous estimates to 1995 for the population over ages 15 and 25.
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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a data set on educational attainment that they have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985, using census/survey information to fill over 40% of the cells, and use school enrollment figures in a perpetual-inventory framework to fill the remainder.