Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?

Fuente, Angel de La; Doménech, Rafael

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“…In addition, we find that the augmented neoclassical model -the Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) version -is well suited to describe European growth. In establishing this result, we make use of the new data on human capital constructed by De la Fuente and Dome´nech (2000). 5.…”

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Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Ederveen

Groot²,

Nahuis

2006

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Structural Funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the European Union to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process of convergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Funds by means of a panel data analysis for 13 countries in the European Union. We show that - on average - Structural Funds are ineffective. For countries with a 'proper' institutional framework, however, Structural Funds are effective. The latter result is obtained for a wide range of conditioning variables, such as openness, institutional quality, corruption and indicators for good governance. It is robust to a wide range of robustness tests. Copyright 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd..

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Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Ederveen

Groot²,

Nahuis

2006

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“…This dataset combine information from de la Fuente and Doménech (2006) with the OECD Education at the Glance database.…”

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Solow or Lucas? Testing speed of convergence on a panel of OECD countries

Arnold

Bassanini

Scarpetta

2011

Research in Economics

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“…Indeed, using the recent empirical study by de la Fuente and Doménech (2006), we argue that a plausible value for the intergenerational externality parameter, φ, lies between 0.27 and 0.40, i.e. nowhere in the vicinity of the knife-edge case considered by Boucekkine et al (2002) and others.…”

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Human capital formation and macroeconomic performance in an ageing small open economy

Heijdra

Romp

2009

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

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We study the effects of stylized demographic and fiscal shocks on the macroeconomic performance of an industrialized small open economy. We construct an overlappinggenerations model which incorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Simple and intuitive expressions are derived which demonstrate the key economic and demographic mechanisms that are operating in the model. The engine of growth during the demographic transition is an intergenerational externality in the production of human capital. In a calibrated version of our model, we find that the effects of increased longevity on human capital formation are small whereas the reduction in fertility has a rather strong effect. JEL codes: E10, D91, O40, F41, J11.

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Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?

Cited by 192 publications

References 7 publications

Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?A Panel Data Analysis of the Conditional Effectiveness of European Cohesion Policy

Solow or Lucas? Testing speed of convergence on a panel of OECD countries

Human capital formation and macroeconomic performance in an ageing small open economy

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