An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of
educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The …

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

Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays
an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies …

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 …

Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in
other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school …

We study the effects of higher labor costs on the adoption of industrial robots by Chinese
firms. We use the number of robots imported by firms from the customs data to measure the …

We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed
database of 1,569 subnational regions from 110 countries covering 74% of the world's …

While human capital is a strong predictor of economic development today, its importance for
the Industrial Revolution has typically been assessed as minor. To resolve this puzzling …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of
history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on …

Human capital is supposed to be an important factor for innovation and economic
development. However, the long-run impact of human capital on current innovation and …