The contribution of schooling in development accounting: Results from a nonparametric upper bound

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio
• 署名单位: Barcelona School of Economics; Pompeu Fabra University; ICREA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.02.006
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 199-211
• 关键词: Development accounting; Imperfect substitution; Schooling

摘要

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels with arbitrary patterns of substitution/complementarity. Another advantage is that the upper bound is robust to certain forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the necessary data, compare our results with the standard development accounting approach, and provide an update on the results using the standard approach for a large sample of countries. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.