Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Measuring the returns to education -- Human capital, endogenous growth models, and economic development -- Education and growth in East Asia -- Education and growth in Latin America -- Africa's population growth and dilution of human capital (with Ali Arifa) -- Health and net population growth -- Democracy, human rights, and political stability -- Poverty and inequality -- The environment -- Education and crime -- Tracing the impacts of education on development: a summary -- Measuring the total social benefits of education: the complete model -- Separating and valuing the direct and indirect effects of education -- Summary of conclusions: measuring the social benefits, convergence, and policy dialogue
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book develops a new approach to measuring the total returns to human resource development through investment in education. Drawing on microanalytic foundations, it uses regional and worldwide data to estimate the net marginal contributions of education and new knowledge both to economic growth and to wider effects on democratization, human rights, political stability, health, longevity, net population growth rates, reduction of poverty, inequality in income distribution, crime, drug use, and the environment."--Jacket