Paper #1297

Títol:

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

Autors:

Francesco Caselli i Antonio Ciccone

Data:

Novembre 2011

Resum:

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 non-parametric 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.

Paraules clau:

development accounting, imperfect substitution

Codis JEL:

I25, O11

Àrea de Recerca:

Macroeconomia i Economia Internacional

Publicat a:

Journal of Development Economics, 104, 199-211, 2013

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