Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

By J. Vandenbussche, Philippe Aghion, C. Meghir. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age (2017, neutral): “A large literature suggests that education is a key factor for economic growth (see, for instance, Lucas (1998), Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), Bils and Klenow (2000), Goldin and Katz (2009), Barro (2001), Vandenbussche et al. (2006), Stokey (1991)).”
The Great Shift: Macroeconomic Projections for the World Economy at the 2050 Horizon (2012, positive): “…of income levels (High- (H), Medium- (M) 24 Introducing the interaction between secondary education and distance to TFP leader in the formulation by Vandenbussche et al. (2006) and Lodigiani (2009) would mathematically imply the addition of a "secondary and more" term, but preliminary tests showed…”
Inequality and Growth in the United States: Evidence from a New State-Level Panel of Income Inequality Measures (2009, background): “…capital coefficients are always negatively signed, as one would expect given the temporal trade-off inherent in educational investment. known in the human capital literature (Krueger and Lindahl 2001) and the continuing subject of recent research (see, e.g., Vandenbussche, Aghion, and Meghir 2006).”
Appropriate growth policy: a unifying framework (2006, positive): “The remaining part of the section is based on work by Vandenbussche, Aghion, and Meghir (2004) (henceforth VAM), and current work by Aghion, Boustan, Hoxby, and Vandenbussche (2005) (henceforth ABHV).”
Efficiency and equity of European education and training policies (2006, positive): “In countries close to the technological frontier, returns to higher education may even be the highest ones (cf. Vandenbussche et al. 2004).”