Education and development: Measuring the social benefits - McMahon Walter W (Oxford University Press New York, 1999)
Keywords: Economic growth -- non-monetary benefits -- poverty and inequality -- Environment -- Measuring returns of education : Recent advances in measuring education outcomes, endogenous development defined, education and development, conceptual framework, framework for endogenous development, uses for conceptual framework and results -- Economic growth - Human capital, endogenous growth models and economic development : Human capital in economic growth models, endogenous growth and related research, production function, investment and saving rates, population growth rates, endogenous growth and endogenous development -- Education and growth in east Asia : Reduced form production function, investment and enrolment by levels, impact of education in growth, determinants of investment rates, feedback effects and simultaneity -- Education and growth in Latin America : Reduced form production function, properties of growth estimates for LAC, empirical determinants of growth in Latin America, investment in physical capital and total saving, international trade impacts, tracing the impact of education on growth in Latin America -- Africa's population growth and dilution of human capital : Current and simulated future per capita economic growth, education and per capita growth in Africa, investment in physical capital for faster growth, population growth, capital dilution and slower growth, development strategies -- Measuring the non monetary benefits -- Health and net population growth : Infant mortality, life expectancy, population effects via fertility rates, net population growth rates, alternative direct estimates, democracy, human rights and political stability, poverty and inequality , poverty reduction, rural poverty, urban poverty, income inequality, empirical determinants of inequality, distributive justice, environment, deforestation and destruction of wildlife, water pollution, air pollution, education and crime -- Completer model- education and economic development : Tracing impact of education on development, measuring total social benefits of education, OECD member countries, separating and valuing direct and indirect effects of education, measuring social benefits, convergence and policy dialogue