Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development

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Columbia or High School? Understanding the Roles of Education in Development

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Rodney Ramcharan

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No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. Thus, education policy can play a vital role in facilitating development. But which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy promote? This paper develops an analytical framework to address this question. It shows how the composition of human capital stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on development. In addition to identifying some characteristics of an optimal education policy, the paper helps in understanding why empirical studies have failed to find a significant relationship between schooling and growth.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 02/36.

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Date of creation: 06 Mar 2002
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