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Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle ☆
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This paper found that educational achievement can account for between half and two thirds of the income differences between Latin America and the rest of the world in terms of economic development, and that the positive growth effect of educational achievement fully accounts for the poor growth performance of Latin American countries.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2012-11-01. It has received 174 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Achievement test & Human capital.read more
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
TL;DR: This article developed a new metric for the distribution of educational achievement across countries that can further track the cognitive skill distribution within countries and over time, and found a close relationship between educational achievement and GDP growth that is remarkably stable across extensive sensitivity analyses of specification, time period, and country samples.
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Economic growth in developing countries: The role of human capital
TL;DR: In this article, the focus on human capital as a driver of economic growth for developing countries has led to undue attention on school attainment, which led to a lack of attention on issues of school quality and in that area developing countries have been much less successful in closing the gaps with developed countries.
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
TL;DR: The PIAAC survey of adult skills over the full lifecycle in 23 countries showed that the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter as discussed by the authors.
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Economic growth, human capital and structural change: A dynamic panel data analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the direct and indirect effects of human capital on economic growth, including in the latter the interaction between human capital with the industrial specialization of countries, and find that human capital and the countries' productive specialization dynamics are crucial factors for economic growth.
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement: Evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
TL;DR: The authors used a correlated random effects model to estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within-teacher within-student variation, exploiting a unique Peruvian 6th-grade dataset that tested both students and their teachers in two subjects.
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