Quality-adjusted human capital and productivity growth

• Main Authors: Rabiul Islam, MD., Ang, James B., Madsen, Jakob B.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101580; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19727
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article examines the influence of quality-adjusted educational attainment on growth and tests whether it facilitates the transfer of technology developed at the frontier for a panel of 60 countries. Using outcomes of pathogen stress as instruments, the results show that quality-adjusted educati...