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Women in Politics: A New Instrument for Studying the Impact of Education on Growth

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Chen, Li-Ju () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)
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This paper tests the growth model of distance to the technological frontier, which states that the closer an economy is to the frontier, the higher the relative importance of innovation relative to imitation as a source of productivity growth. Hence, an economy closer to the technological frontier should invest more in skilled labor since innovation is a skill-intensive activity. I use the proportion of female legislators as an instrument for skilled labor, in contrast to Vandenbussche, Aghion, and Meghir (2006) who used lagged educational expenditures. The results with the new instrument are consistent with the theoretical prediction and the previous results of Vandenbussche, Aghion, and Meghir (2006).

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Department of Economics in its series Research Papers in Economics with number 2009:2.

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Date of creation: 15 Jan 2009
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Keywords: distance to the technological frontier; women in politics;

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H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General
O40 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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