The value of redistribution: Natural resources and the formation of human capital under weak institutions

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The effects of natural resources on human capital accumulation: A literature survey

“…A popular outcome measure is average years of schooling. Other output measures include earnings rate of return (Kim and Lin, 2017), increase in cognitive skills or educational system performance (Farzanegan & Thum, 2017), quality of higher education (Javadi et al., 2017), average test scores in mathematics or reading (Agüero et al., 2017), and youth or adult illiteracy rates (Davis, 1995; Manning, 2004; Philippot, 2010; Stijns, 2006, 2009). The most common participation measure is school enrolment rate, while others include the dropout rate (Carpenter et al., 2019), number of enrolled students (Agüero et al., 2017), the number of college students divided by the total population (Sun et al., 2018), on‐the‐job training rates (Javadi et al., 2017), or the number of adults by education level (Weber, 2014).…”

Effect of Productive Capacities on Economic Resilience in Developing Countries

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