The effect of quantity and quality of education on innovation

Labordeta, Jorge Fernández-Rodríguez; Giménez, Gregorio

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“…Nevertheless, we looked in a different direction to understand the relationship between ICT use at school and students' outcomes, hypothesizing that the countries' stock of human capital might be a positive externality in the relationship between students' outcomes and ICT use. We confirmed our hypothesis, according to previous arguments, that supported the role of the stock of human capital as a catalyst of new technologies [15,16,[36][37][38], which have the capacity to create and improve pedagogical and institutional educational environments [39][40][41][42] and to engage better teachers [45,46]. Regardless of the subject assessed and the human capital indicator considered, average years of schooling (BL) or average years of schooling weighted by the Mincerian rates of return to education (PWT), the moderator-effect of the stock of human capital turned the negative relationship between students' outcomes and ICT use at school into a positive one.…”

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ICT Use and Successful Learning: The Role of the Stock of Human Capital

Giménez

Vargas-Montoya

2021

Mathematics

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Previous empirical studies have found a weak nexus between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for learning and students’ outcomes. However, this literature has not considered the role that the countries’ stock of human capital can have in the successful use of ICT for learning. In this paper, we test empirically the existence of complementarities between human capital and technology adoption for learning. We carry out an empirical analysis with PISA data from a large-scale sample of 363,412 students enrolled in 13,215 schools in 48 countries. We estimate a hierarchical linear model (HLM) of three levels: students, schools, and countries. Our results strongly support the evidence of a positive externality of the stock of human capital on ICT use for learning. When we consider the moderator-effect of the stock of human capital, we find that the negative outcome of ICT use on students’ outcomes in mathematics, reading and science turns positive (greater and more positive the higher the stocks of human capital are). The greater the stock of human capital an economy has, the more benefits it can get from investments in ICT for learning.

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“…The assimilation and effective use of technology. We consider the stock of human capital as a catalyst of new technologies: the process of adoption of new technologies is strongly influenced by the human capital stock, by reducing new technologies' learning costs and accelerating their adoption [15,[36][37][38].…”

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ICT Use and Successful Learning: The Role of the Stock of Human Capital

Giménez

Vargas-Montoya

2021

Mathematics

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“…Human capital is measured as the average years of schooling of males above 15 years old [47,48]. A substantial number of studies have found a significant positive association between this measure of human capital and economic growth in both developed and developing countries [49][50][51], through a direct effect in the production function and an indirect one through innovation, imitation and the quality of institutions [50,[52][53][54]. Measures of education quality, based on internationally comparable test scores, have shown an important explanatory power for growth.…”

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The Use of Decomposition Methods to Understand the Economic Growth Gap between Latin America and East Asia

2021

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Understanding how growth factors contribute to explaining the large differences in growth rates across countries remains an important research agenda. The common approach to exploring this issue is based on the use of multiple linear regression analyses. This work contributes to growth literature by applying a new perspective based on the use of variance decomposition procedures: Shapley–Owen–Shorrocks and Oaxaca–Blinder. These methodologies have four main advantages with respect to traditional methodologies: they make possible the quantification of the relative contribution of each factor to economic growth, they allow us to estimate the efficiency in the use of the endowments of each factor, they can be used with any functional form and they can be used with estimation methods that are robust regarding endogeneity issues. We illustrate these advantages by analyzing the causes of the economic growth gap between Latin America and East Asia over the period 1980–2014. We find that the economic growth divergence between the two regions can be primarily explained by the differences in institutions and physical capital. In addition, the results indicate that the higher East Asian performance is not only due to its higher levels of endowments in these factors, but also to the higher efficiency in its use. We connect our results with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Relations between different fields of tertiary education and the innovativeness of an economy

Bieliński¹

2017

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Zale¿nooeci pomiêdzy edukacj¹ na ró¿nych kierunkach studiów a innowacyjnooeci¹ gospodarki G³ównym celem artyku³u jest okreoelenie zale¿nooeci miêdzy edukacj¹ na ró¿nych kierunkach studiów a innowacyjnooeci¹ gospodarki. Metodologi¹ badawcz¹ zastosowan¹ w artykule jest analiza korelacji miêdzy liczb¹ absolwentów poszczególnych kierunków studiów wy¿szych na jednego zatrudnionego w danej gospodarce a liczb¹ wniosków patentowych z³o¿onych przez obywateli tego pañstwa. W artykule potwierdzono hipotezê, i¿ liczba absolwentów nie wszystkich kierunków studiów jest skorelowana ze wskaŸnikami innowacyjnooeci gospodarki. Najwy¿sza statystycznie istotna korelacja wystêpuje miêdzy liczb¹ wniosków patentowych a nowymi absolwentami studiów: medycznych, nauk oecis³ych, humanistycznych i artystycznych oraz in¿ynieryjnych. Po kilku latach od ukoñczenia studiów niewielkiego znaczenia dla innowacyjnooeci gospodarki nabieraj¹ tak¿e absolwenci nauk spo³ecznych, ekonomicznych i prawnych. Jeszcze d³u¿szy czas potrzebny jest, aby istotni dla innowacyjnooeci gospodarki zaczêli byae pedagodzy. Z liczb¹ wniosków patentowych nie jest natomiast skorelowana liczba absolwentów studiów rolniczych oraz kierunków zwi¹zanych z us³ugami. S³owa kluczowe: innowacyjnooeae, kapita³ ludzki, edukacja Klasyfikacja JEL: I26, O15 Relations between different fields of tertiary education and the innovativeness of an economy The main aim of the paper is to determine the relations between the education in different fields of university study and the innovativeness of an economy. The research method is an analysis of the correlations between the number of graduates in particular fields and the number of patent applications filed in a given country. The study confirms the hypothesis that not all numbers of tertiary education graduates are positively correlated with innovativeness indicators. The strongest statistically relevant correlation was found between the number of patent applications and the number of graduates in medicine, science, humanities and arts, and engineering. Another relevant correlation was found between the number of patent applications and the number of graduates in social sciences, business and law, and education, but only several years after they had finished studying. There is no correlation between the number of patent applications and graduates in agriculture or services.

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The effect of quantity and quality of education on innovation

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

ICT Use and Successful Learning: The Role of the Stock of Human Capital

ICT Use and Successful Learning: The Role of the Stock of Human Capital

The Use of Decomposition Methods to Understand the Economic Growth Gap between Latin America and East Asia

Relations between different fields of tertiary education and the innovativeness of an economy

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