The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound / Francesco Caselli, Antonio Ciccone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caselli, Francesco.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ciccone, Antonio.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17656.

NBER working paper series no. w17656

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

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.

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Print version record

December 2011.