Economic Openness and Educational Expansion

Mark Gradstein, Denis Nikitin and Heng-Fu Zou ()
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Mark Gradstein: Ben Gurion University
Denis Nikitin: World Bank

Annals of Economics and Finance, 2023, vol. 24, issue 2, 213-235

Abstract: This paper documents the vast expansion of schooling over the past several decades. It begins by considering international panel data and makes the observation that poor countries today have higher average education levels than countries at the same level of economic development used to have in the past. It is then argued that this trend can be attributed to the enhanced demand for schooling because of the increase in openness. The analysis of educational expansion in a cross-country framework and in China’s provinces provides support for the view that educational expansion is related to the economy's openness.

Keywords: Economic openness; Educational expansion; Cross-country analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F00 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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