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Does the Post-Socialist Past Determine the Relationship between GDP per Capita and Education? Evidence from Europe

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  • Zsuzsanna Banász

    (MTA-PE Budapest Ranking Research Group, Veszprém, Hungary)

  • Vivien Valéria Csányi

    (MTA-PE Budapest Ranking Research Group, Veszprém, Hungary)

Abstract

Education is one of the key factors of economic growth. Despite the huge amount of researches investigating the relationship between education and GDP as a proxy of well-being, to the best of our knowledge, none of these studies examined a group of post-socialist countries comparing with not-post-socialist countries. This paper aims to fill this gap. We examine the correlation between growth and education with panel data evidence for 18 post-socialist (PS) countries and 16 developed market economies (DME) over the 1990–2014 period. The goal of this paper is to test two hypotheses: (i) The relationship between GDP per capita and tertiary education’s enrolment rate is stronger in the post-socialist countries than in other countries. (ii) In the post-socialist countries, the relationship between GDP per capita and tertiary education’s enrolment rate is stronger than the relationship between GDP per capita and any other level of education. Correlation analyses confirmed both hypotheses. Our findings suggest that the patterns of relationship between GDP and measures of tertiary education are different for PS and DME countries and would be interesting to observe when and how the gap between the patterns disappears.

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  • Zsuzsanna Banász & Vivien Valéria Csányi, 2018. "Does the Post-Socialist Past Determine the Relationship between GDP per Capita and Education? Evidence from Europe," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 68(4), pages 573-589, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:aoecon:v:68:y:2018:i:4:p:573-589
    Note: This publication/research has been supported by the European Union and Hungary and cofinanced by the European Social Fund through the project EFOP-3.6.2-16-2017-00017, titled “Sustainable, intelligent and inclusive regional and city models” and MTA-PE Budapest Ranking Research Group (Grant No. 16208).
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    Keywords

    education; economic wealth; European countries; post-socialist past; developed market economies; correlation;
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    JEL classification:

    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
    • P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General

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