I’m not going to get into this, but if you think this is the answer to big questions of how to increase economic growth, it would be better to properly define the dataset and show an analysis which demonstrates causation rather than mere correlation.
The idea that education is important is not new. Since the early 1990′s UNDP has published Human Development Index, consisting of Education, Health and Income. Why the EA community discarded education is beyond my understanding.
Kerala had good social indicators by 1970 just 2 decades after independence and has been ahead of China until very recently in those indices. Amartya Sen discusses Kerala, China, Tamil Nadu in his books.
I’m not going to get into this, but if you think this is the answer to big questions of how to increase economic growth, it would be better to properly define the dataset and show an analysis which demonstrates causation rather than mere correlation.
I have very little interest in economic growth. I value basic education, followed by health.
The best papers on the subject are Education and Health: Redrawing the Preston Curve Wolfgang Lutz Endale Kebede
Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate Wolfgang Lutz
You can find detailed education dataset at http://dataexplorer.wittgensteincentre.org/wcde-v2/
Gapminder which i linked to earlier has a lot of data loaded into it. https://www.gapminder.org/tools
The idea that education is important is not new. Since the early 1990′s UNDP has published Human Development Index, consisting of Education, Health and Income. Why the EA community discarded education is beyond my understanding.
The HDI of 1990′s is itself based on the older Kerala Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
Kerala had good social indicators by 1970 just 2 decades after independence and has been ahead of China until very recently in those indices. Amartya Sen discusses Kerala, China, Tamil Nadu in his books.