Economic Growth and Investment in Education: How Allocation Matters

Ruth Judson

Journal of Economic Growth, 1998, vol. 3, issue 4, 337-59

Abstract: This article proposes an approach to answering two questions: first, does investment in education help growth; second, does the allocation of investment in education matter? I develop a model where individual ability is heterogeneous and education both trains students and reveals their suitability for further training. I use UNESCO data on educational enrollments and spending to estimate the efficiency of existing educational allocations in a panel of countries. A cross-country growth decomposition regression shows that the correlation of human capital capital accumulation and GDP growth is not significant in countries with poor allocations but is significant and positive in countries with better allocations. Copyright 1998 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1998
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