Table 5: Basic vs. high-level skills
Sample: |
full |
OECD (2) |
full (3) |
full |
OECD (5) |
full (6) |
full |
OECD |
full (9) |
Share of students reaching |
2.644 |
4.434 |
2.146 |
4.674 |
5.272 |
4.549 | |||
basic literacy |
(3.57) |
(3.52) |
(2.58) |
fri.77) |
(5.65) |
(5.5√) | |||
Share of top-performing |
12.602 |
3.234 |
16.536 |
18.904 |
10.933 |
21.499 | |||
students |
(4.35) |
(0.99) |
(4.90) |
α√5) |
(3.61) |
(7.79) | |||
Initial years of schooling |
0.066 |
0.035 |
0.070 |
0.129 |
0.039 |
0.131 |
0.116 |
0.086 |
0.122 |
(0.87) |
(0.60) |
(0.94) |
Р-49) |
(0.68) |
(7.47) |
(R40) |
(7.23) |
(7.53) | |
Initial GDP per capita |
-0.305 |
-0.305 |
-0.317 |
-0.326 |
-0.314 |
-0.340 |
-0.297 |
-.275 |
-0.314 |
('6.√3) |
(8.24) |
(5.63) |
(5.85) |
(3.77) |
(5.05) |
(5.62) |
(6.09) |
(5.32) | |
OECD |
-0.659 |
0.150 |
1.018 | ||||||
(0.44) |
(0.10) |
(2.77) | |||||||
OECD x basic literacy |
2.074 |
0.024 | |||||||
(0.94) |
(0.01) | ||||||||
OECD x top-performing |
-13.422 |
-10.733 | |||||||
(2.08) |
(2.И) | ||||||||
No. of countries |
50 |
24 |
50 |
50 |
24 |
50 |
50 |
24 |
50 |
F (OECD and interaction) |
1.62 |
0.10 |
2.66 | ||||||
R2 (adj.)_______________________ |
0.724 |
0.822 |
0.734 |
0.616 |
0.822 |
0.600 |
0.655 |
0.720 |
0.679 |
Notes'. Dependent variable: average annual growth rate in GDP per capita, 1960-2000. Regressions include a constant, /-statistics in parentheses.
Source: Authors’ calculations based on data in Heston, Summers, and Aten (2002), Barro and Lee (2010), and Hanushek and Woessmann (2009).
Table 6: Non-tertiary vs. tertiary schooling
Sample: |
full |
OECD |
OECD |
OECD |
OECD |
OECD |
OECD |
(ɪ) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
(?) | |
Cognitive skills |
1.923 |
1.888 |
1.912 |
2.043 | |||
Share of students reaching basic literacy |
5.458 (7.13) | ||||||
Share of top-performing students |
11.597 |
12.855 | |||||
Years of поп-tertiary schooling |
0.076 |
0.012 | |||||
Years of tertiary schooling |
0.198 |
1.291 (7.53) |
1.344 <7.77) |
0.543 |
1.685 |
1.014 |
0.149 |
Initial GDP per capita |
-0.325 |
-0.323 |
-0.320 |
-0.323 (11.22) |
-0.344 (10.53) |
-0.264 |
-0.263 |
No. of countries R2 (adj.)____________________________________ |
50 |
24 |
24 |
23 |
24 |
24 |
23 |
Notes: Dependent variable: average annual growth rate in GDP per capita, 1960-2000. Regressions include a constant, /-statistics in parentheses.
Source: Authors’ calculations based on data in Heston, Summers, and Aten (2002), Barro and Lee (2010), and Hanushek and Woessmann (2009).