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Working Papers

2017

1. Family, Schools, or Culture: What Explains Differences in U.S. Student Achievement Across Ethnic Groups on PISA 2012?
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
2. National Culture, Families, or Education Policies: What Determines National Test Scores?
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (1)

2016

3. Education and Growth: Where All the Education Went
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
4. Low Test Scores in Latin America: Poor Schools, Poor Families, or Something Else?
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (1)

2015

5. Changes in the Effect of Capital and TFP on Output in Penn World Tables 7 and 8: Improvement or Error?
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
6. Evidence that Capital Formation is Over-Estimated in ICP 2011
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT

2014

7. A Human Capital Theory of Economic Growth: New Evidence for an Old Idea
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
8. A Human Capital Theory of Growth: New Evidence for an Old Idea
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
9. Development Accounting: Conceptually Flawed and Inconsistent with Empirical Evidence
   Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
10. Human capital and growth in japan since 1970: converging to the steady state in a 1% world
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
11. Schooling and Economic Growth: What Have We Learned?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
12. The External Effect of Urban Schooling Attainment on Workers’ Incomes in Ecuador
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT

2013

13. Evidence that class size matters in 4th grade mathematics an analysis of TIMSS 2007 data for Colombia
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
14. Higher Test Scores or More Schooling? Another Look at the Causes of Economic Growth
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
    See also Journal Article Higher Test Scores or More Schooling? Another Look at the Causes of Economic Growth, Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press (2015) View citations (12) (2015)
15. Human Capital's Contribution to Japan's Lost Decades
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
16. ICP 2005 Construction Prices: Underestimated in Developing Countries?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
17. Schooling attainment, schooling expenditures, and test scores what causes economic growth?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
18. World Productivity Growth and the Steady-State Rate in the 20th Century
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
19. World Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Steady-State Rate in the 20th Century
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article World total factor productivity growth and the steady-state rate in the 20th century, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2013) View citations (2) (2013)

2012

20. Increases in human capital and growth: new data, more conclusive results
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
21. Penn World Table 7.0: Are the Data Seriously Flawed?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (3)
22. The Role of Education in Economic Development: Theory, History, and Current Returns
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (5)
23. The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (1)

2011

24. Does investment in schooling raise national income? Evidence from cross-country studies
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
    See also Journal Article Does Investment in Schooling Raise National Income? Evidence from Cross-Country Studies, Revista Ecos de Economía, Universidad EAFIT (2011) (2011)
25. The Quality vs. the Quantity of Schooling: What Drives Economic Growth?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (36)
    See also Journal Article The quality vs. the quantity of schooling: What drives economic growth?, Economics of Education Review, Elsevier (2011) View citations (36) (2011)
26. Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil Right? A reconciliation of the Micro and Macro Effects of Schooling on Income
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article WERE MANKIW, ROMER, AND WEIL RIGHT? A RECONCILIATION OF THE MICRO AND MACRO EFFECTS OF SCHOOLING ON INCOME, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press (2013) View citations (11) (2013)

2010

27. Can Institutions or Education Explain World Poverty? An Augmented Solow Model Provides Some Insights
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
    See also Journal Article Can institutions or education explain world poverty? An augmented Solow model provides some insights, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier (2004) View citations (11) (2004)
28. Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Corrected Estimates
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Schooling and national income: how large are the externalities? Corrected estimates, Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2010) View citations (6) (2010)
29. Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Revised Estimates
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT View citations (3)

2009

30. Cognitive Skills, Schooling Attainment, and Schooling Resources: What Drives Economic Growth?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT

2007

31. Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?
    Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público, Universidad EAFIT
    See also Journal Article Schooling and national income: how large are the externalities?, Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals (2010) View citations (7) (2010)

Journal Articles

2016

1. ICP 2005 Construction Prices: Are They Underestimated in Developing Countries?
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, 62, (2), 380-393

2015

2. Higher Test Scores or More Schooling? Another Look at the Causes of Economic Growth
   Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9, (2), 239 - 263 View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper Higher Test Scores or More Schooling? Another Look at the Causes of Economic Growth, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2013) (2013)
3. Human capital and growth in Japan: Converging to the steady state in a 1% world
   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 36, (C), 73-89 View citations (3)

2013

4. WERE MANKIW, ROMER, AND WEIL RIGHT? A RECONCILIATION OF THE MICRO AND MACRO EFFECTS OF SCHOOLING ON INCOME
   Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, 17, (5), 1023-1054 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil Right? A reconciliation of the Micro and Macro Effects of Schooling on Income, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2011) View citations (3) (2011)
5. World total factor productivity growth and the steady-state rate in the 20th century
   Economics Letters, 2013, 119, (3), 340-343 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper World Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Steady-State Rate in the 20th Century, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2013) View citations (2) (2013)

2012

6. Penn World Table 7.0: Are the data flawed?
   Economics Letters, 2012, 117, (1), 208-210 View citations (15)

2011

7. Does Investment in Schooling Raise National Income? Evidence from Cross-Country Studies
   Revista Ecos de Economía, 2011
   See also Working Paper Does investment in schooling raise national income? Evidence from cross-country studies, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2011) (2011)
8. The quality vs. the quantity of schooling: What drives economic growth?
   Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30, (4), 765-773 View citations (36)
   See also Working Paper The Quality vs. the Quantity of Schooling: What Drives Economic Growth?, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2011) View citations (36) (2011)

2010

9. Schooling and national income: how large are the externalities?
   Education Economics, 2010, 18, (1), 67-92 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities?, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2007) (2007)
10. Schooling and national income: how large are the externalities? Corrected estimates
    Education Economics, 2010, 18, (4), 455-456 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Schooling and National Income: How Large Are the Externalities? Corrected Estimates, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2010) View citations (3) (2010)

2004

11. Can institutions or education explain world poverty? An augmented Solow model provides some insights
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2004, 33, (1), 45-69 View citations (11)
    See also Working Paper Can Institutions or Education Explain World Poverty? An Augmented Solow Model Provides Some Insights, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público (2010) (2010)