HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROSPERITY: FROM CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES TO LUMINOSITY IN INDIA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Castello-Climent, Amparo; Chaudhary, Latika; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop
• 署名单位: University of Valencia; United States Department of Defense; United States Navy; Naval Postgraduate School; Indian Statistical Institute
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12551
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 3039-3075
• 关键词: economic-growth; institutions; diffusion; religion; origins; HISTORY; poverty; legacy; income; WORLD

摘要

This article estimates the impact of completed higher education on economic prosperity across Indian districts. To address the endogeneity of higher education, we use the location of Catholic missionaries circa 1911 as an instrument. Catholics constitute a very small share of the population in India and their influence beyond higher education has been limited. Our instrumental variable results find a positive effect of higher education on development, as measured by light density. The results are robust to alternative measures of development, and are not driven by lower levels of schooling or other channels by which missionaries could impact current income.