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Title:Does Schooling Promote Economic Growth?
Authors:Gutema, Paulos
Bekele, Mekonnen
Year:2004
Periodical:African Development Review
Volume:16
Issue:2
Period:September
Pages:385-398
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:economic development
schooling
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1017-6772.2004.00096.x/pdf
Abstract:This article revisits the debate on schooling and economic growth with particular reference to the case of sub-Saharan Africa. Following the endogenous growth model developed by Lucas (1988) that considers human capital as one factor of production and schooling as a means of human capital accumulation, two results of schooling are explicitly stated: accumulation of privately owned and publicly owned human capital. By developing a growth estimating equation containing these two types of schooling results from the model and confronting it with empirical data, the hypothesis that schooling has got growth effect is tested. The analytic result suggests that in the indicated economies, for the period covered by the study (1966-2000), schooling that leads to accumulation of publicly owned human capital is associated with per capita income growth. Likewise, the analysis provides supporting evidence for the argument that primary schooling level is more associated with growth than other levels of schooling. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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