The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass
attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production …

内容提要: 本文在测算和分析1982—2002 年省区全要素生产率(TFP) 的基础上进行TFP
的收敛检验, 并与收入(劳均GDP) 的收敛模式做了对比分析. 分析表明TFP 解释了我国省区收入 …

We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last
four decades are accounted for by relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in …

Human capital—that is, resources associated with the knowledge and skills of individuals—
is a critical component of economic development 1, 2. Learning metrics that are comparable …

We review the existing literature on the measurement of human capital. Broadly speaking,
economists have proposed three approaches to constructing human capital measures—the …

Why do living standards differ so much across countries? A consensus in the development
literature is that differences in productivity are a dominant source of these differences. But …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

Why are people in the richest countries of the world so much richer today than 100 years
ago? And why are some countries so much richer than others? Questions such as these …

We review the literature that links institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth
outcomes, focusing in particular on empirical research. Most of the literature has an …