Abstract
The accumulation of knowledge required to produce economic value is a process that often relates to nations economic growth. Some decades ago many authors, in the absence of other available indicators, used to rely on certain measures of human capital such as years of schooling, enrollment rates, or literacy. In this paper, we show that the predictive power of years of education as a proxy for human capital started to dwindle in 1990 when the schooling of nations began to be homogenized. We developed a structural equation model that estimates a metric of human capital that is less sensitive than average years of education and remains as a significant predictor of economic growth when tested with both cross-section data and panel data.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e0213651 |
| Pages (from-to) | e0213651 |
| Journal | PLoS One |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 21 Mar 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 Laverde-Rojas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
