The Causal Impact of Education on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S.

By Philippe Aghion, L. Boustan, C. Hoxby, J. Vandenbussche. 2009

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Innovation and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis for CEE Countries (2015, unknown): “The economic growth model developed by Schumpeter argues competition through innovation and the importance of education in ensuring economic growth, these assumptions are supported also by empirical studies (Aghion et al., 2005, 2009).”
Education and Invention (2016, methodology): “Evidence based on macrolevel studies provides at best weak evidence of a causal effect of education on growth (Krueger & Lindahl, 2001), although Aghion et al. (2009), using U.S. state-level data, find evidence of a positive effect of education on growth.”
Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation (2012, unknown): “56 For an alternative model of imitation and innovation that emphasizes the innovation margin, see Vandenbussche et al. (2006) and Aghion et al. (2009).”
Knowledge Spillovers from Research Universities: Evidence from Endowment Value Shocks (2014, background): “Finally, we measure the degree to which each indus- 6 Aghion et al. (2009) consider the impact of research university activity on state economies in an endogenous growth framework.”
Innovation and Top Income Inequality (2018, methodology): “…its own regulations.34 However, the Appropriation Committees can also choose to add grants (or “earmarks”) to the appropriation bill for specific projects, bypassing the usual peer-review competitive process (see Aghion et al., 2009; Cohen et al., 2011; Payne, 2003; Savage, 2000; and Feller, 2001).”
The economic case for education† (2016, background): “Important contributions include, among others, Barro (1991, 1997), Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992), Bils and Klenow (2000), Bosworth and Collins (2003), de la Fuente and Doménech (2006), Vandenbussche, Aghion, and Meghir (2006), Cohen and Soto (2007), Aghion et al. (2009), and Barro and Lee (2013).”
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution (2012, unknown): “For example, Aghion et al. (2009) study the impact of higher education spending on growth in the contemporary United States, and find a significant positive effect of 4-year college spending across all states, and of research-related spending in states close to the technological frontier.”
Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science (2018, background): “…become a “hit” (Uzzi et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2016), as are papers that predominantly cite recent as well as some older references (Mukher- 2Increased funding for universities and the establishment of technical universities increases patenting (Aghion et al., 2009; Toivanen and Väänänen, 2016).”
Politics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2017, background): “By comSome additional examples include Aghion et al. (2009), Khemani (2007), Hoover and Pecorino (2005), Dixit and Londregan (1996) and Arulampalam et al.”
The economic impact of universities: Evidence from across the globe (2016, background): “Governments were focused on social equity (Dahrendorf, 1965), improving technological capacity (in response to the Cold War, especially the 1957 Sputnik crisis, see Barr, 2014) and a general recognition of the value of human capital (Becker, 1964). This kind of “development planning” (Schofer & Meye”