A micro-decomposition analysis of the macroeconomic determinants of human development

Sylvie Lambert, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle

No 4358, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper shows how differences in aggregate human development outcomes over time and space can be additively decomposed into a pure economic-growth component, a component attributed to differences in the distribution of income, and components attributed to"non-income"factors and differences in the model linking outcomes to income or non-income characteristics. The income effect at the micro level is modeled non-parametrically, so as to flexibly reflect distributional changes. The paper illustrates the decomposition using data for Morocco and Vietnam, and the results offer some surprising insights into the observed aggregate gains in schooling attainments. A user friendly STATA program is available to implement the method in other settings.

Keywords: Primary Education; Education For All; Population Policies; Rural Poverty Reduction; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-09-01
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