Education and Development

Measuring the Social Benefits
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829231-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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, net population growth rates, reduction of poverty, inequality in income distribution, crime, drug use, and the environment. The total impact of education policy changes on endogenous development is then estimated using an interactive model.

This new approach is important to industrialized and developing countries alike. The diffusion of knowledge and the adaptation of new techniques has been identified as crucial to the growth process in the new endogenmous growth models, and is of increasing strategic importance in current knowledge-based globalizing economies.

Similarly, the non-monetary returns from education are important in improving human welfare. Measurement of these non-market returns is a crucial but much neglected subject. It has proved frustrating, and existing microanalytic measures have proved piecemeal. The new approach developed here offers some comprehensive estimates and simulation techniques for finding more cost-effective policies, and also suggests new hypotheses for further microanalytic testing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcmahon, Walter W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Introduction

- Measuring the Returns to Education

- Part II: Economic Growth

- 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)

- Part III: Measuring the Non-Monetary Benefits

- Health and Net Population Growth

- Democracy, Human Rights, and Political Stability

- Poverty and Inequality

- The Environment

- Education and Crime

- Part IV: The Complete Model: Education and Economic Development

- 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

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Walter W. McMahon has been Professor of Economics with a joint appointment as Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1972, specializing in the economics of education and human capital, and in macroeconomic theory and analysis. He has worked in many developing countries, including acting as Chief Economist on the 25 Year Plan for Education in Indonesia, and conducting education sector assessments for the governments of Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Kuwait.