小川啓一, 野村真作. 2009 『教育統計学【基礎編】:「万人のための教育」に向けた理論と実践的ツール』学文社
「世界的に注目の集まっている教育開発や教育協力に関連して、もとめられるさまざまな指標、統計データを分析し正しく読み取り解釈するための理論と方法を解説。
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He found that the rapidly growing developing countries were those that had above average performance in both literacy and live expectancy.

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His study made a pioneering attempt to compare differences in per capita income between USA and a wide range of other countries.

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This integrates education variables into an aggregate production function framework for five developing countries regions, notes a wide variability in the impact of education and growth.

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4 years of education increased farmer productivity on average by 7.4%. This average centers around a fairly wide range, however, with several studies showing a negative correlation between education and productivity.

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Extension of Wheeler’s work

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He identifies a significant relation between the change in literacy and the rate of investment in nonhuman capital, as well as the level of literacy and rates of investment in subsequent periods.

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Growth Accounting

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Bowman shows much lower contribution for education in other countries. In 22 countries having estimates for roughly the period 1950 to 1962, only in 4 did the direct contribution of education exceed 10 %. (Argentina, Belgium, UK, USA)

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In this work, labor inputs are adjusted to reflect changes in the age and sex composition of the labor force, changes in hours worked, and most importantly, for changes in education.

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Psacharopoulos found that the direct effect of education explained an average of only 8.7% of total growth.

Human Capital

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