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Higher or Basic Education? The Composition of Human Capital and Economic Development Rodney Ramcharan Full Text of this Article (PDF 292K) No country has achieved sustained economic development without investment in education. But do all types of human capital affect growth identically? And which types of schooling-secondary or tertiary-should public policy promote? This paper develops an analytical framework to address these questions. It shows how the composition of human capital stock determines a country's development. Hence, promoting the "wrong" type of schooling can have little effect on development. In addition, the paper helps in understanding why empirical studies have failed to find a significant relationship between schooling and growth. [JEL O11, O41, I20] |
