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Online Appendix to "Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time"

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  • Diego Restuccia

    (University of Toronto)

  • Guillaume Vandenbroucke

    (University of Southern California)

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Online appendix for the Review of Economic Dynamics article

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  • Diego Restuccia & Guillaume Vandenbroucke, 2014. "Online Appendix to "Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time"," Online Appendices 13-98, Review of Economic Dynamics.
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    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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