What Level of Education Matters Most for Growth? Evidence from Portugal

Miguel Aubyn () and Joao Pereira ()

No 2004/13, Working Papers Department of Economics from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: We decompose an annual average years of schooling series for Portugal into different schooling levels series. By estimating a number of vector autoregressions, we provide measures of aggregate and disaggregate economic growth impacts of different education levels. Increasing education at all levels except tertiary have a significant effect on growth. Investment in education does not significantly crowd out physical investment and average years of schooling semi-elasticities have comparable magnitude across primary and secondary levels.

Keywords: Economic growth; education; human capital; Portugal. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 O40 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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