Institutions, Human Capital, and Development
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چکیده
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Institutions, Human Capital, and Development
In this article, we revisit the relationship among institutions, human capital, and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified, both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differentialmeasurement error in these variables, and that thismisspecification is at the root of the very large returns of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1941-1383,1941-1391
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080213-041119