Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin

By Léonard Wantchekon, Marko Klašnja, Natalija Novta. 2015

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Safety Research

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In Demography

1. Sam Asher
2. V. Rueda
3. P. Novosad
4. Julia Cagé
5. Vanessa S. Tchamyou

In Information Systems

1. V. Rueda
2. Julia Cagé
3. Vanessa S. Tchamyou
4. Simplice A. Asongu
5. Jacinta C. Nwachukwu
6. Nicholas M. Odhiambo
7. J. Nnanna
8. P. Acha-Anyi

In Safety Research

1. Sam Asher
2. P. Novosad
3. Vanessa S. Tchamyou

Citations in the corpus

• Reinventing Foreign Aid for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Kuznets, Piketty and the Great Policy Reversal (2016, unknown): “These trainings also have the potential for substantial positive externalities with successful stories (Wantchekon et al., 2014).”
• The long Term Effects of the Printing Press in Sub Saharan Africa (2016, background): “Consistently with the existing literature (Wantchekon et al., 2012), we find a positive and statistically significant impact of the proximity to a mission with a high-school on education (Table 8).”
• History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, unknown): “Head-loading was the main means of transport, and very costly.”
• Rural Roads and Local Economic Development (2018, background): “Wantchekon et al. (2015) provide evidence that transport costs are a strong predictor of poverty across sub-Saharan Africa.”
• Knowledge Economy Gaps, Policy Syndromes, and Catch-Up Strategies: Fresh South Korean Lessons to Africa (2015, unknown): “…general discourses about KE in the continent (Rooney 2005; Lin 2006; Anyanwu 2012), education (Ford 2007; Amavilah 2009; Chavula 2010; Weber 2011; Wantchekon et al. 2014), information and communication technologies (African Partnership Forum 2008; Chavula 2010; Butcher 2011), innovation…”
• The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business (2016, result): “Relationships with the expected signs are broadly in accordance with the discussion presented in the first paragraph (Gerba 2012; Singh et al. 2011; Oseifuah 2010; Mensah and Benedict 2010; Wantchekon et al. 2014).”
• The Mission: Human Capital Transmission, Economic Persistence, and Culture in South America* (2018, unknown): “Within countries, Wantchekon et al. (2015) nd positive human capital”