Schooling, labor-force quality, and the growth of nations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hanushek, EA; Kimko, DD
• 署名单位: Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.5.1184
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 1184-1208
• 关键词: international comparisons; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; POLICY; quantity

摘要

Direct measures of labor-force quality from international mathematics and science test scores are strongly related to growth. Indirect specification tests are generally consistent with a causal link: direct spending on schools is unrelated to student performance differences; the estimated growth effects of improved labor-force quality hold when East Asian countries are excluded; and, finally, home-country quality differences of immigrants are directly related to U.S. earnings if the immigrants are educated in their own country but not in the United States. The last estimates of micro productivity effects, however, introduce uncertainty about the magnitude of the growth effects.