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Distribution of human capital and income : an empirical study on Indian states

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  • GILLE, Véronique

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Recently, an emphasis has been put on education as a key determinant for economic development. But when increasing the mean level of education of their population, developing countries face a trade-off: should they focus on increasing the level of already educated children or try to put more children into school and diminish illiteracy rates? In other words, should countries favor a more unequal or a more equal distribution of human capital? This paper empirically explores this question by analyzing the relation between distribution of education and income per capita with panel data from 29 Indian States. Using two different measures of the distribution of education and dealing with the high correlation between the mean education level and its distribution, this paper provides evidence that there is a negative relation between equality of education and income per capita. This result is robust to the use of the system GMM estimator. However, the relation is non-linear and depends on the level of development. This paper also gives a first insight into the channels which are at stake and shows that several mechanisms explain the impact of the distribution of education.
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  • GILLE, Véronique, 2015. "Distribution of human capital and income : an empirical study on Indian states," LIDAM Reprints CORE 2696, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
    • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvrp:2696
    Note: In : Journal of Macroeconomics, 43, p. 239-256, 2015
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    1. Dalibor Gottwald & Libor Švadlenka & Hana Pavlisová, 2016. "Human Capital and Growth of E-postal Services: A cross-country Analysis in Developing Countries," Post-Print hal-01307145, HAL.
    2. Xiao Dai & Liang Yan & Liu Jianping & JianWu, 2022. "A research on the threshold effect of human capital structure upgrading and industrial structure upgrading—based on the perspective of path dependence," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 56(4), pages 2645-2674, August.
    3. Varughese, Aswathy Rachel & Bairagya, Indrajit, 2020. "Group-based educational inequalities in India: Have major education policy interventions been effective?," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 73(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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