Facultad de Economía/Universidad Santo Tomás, Bogotá, Colombia.
Facultad de Psicología/Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, Bogotá, Colombia.
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 21;14(3):e0213651. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213651. eCollection 2019.
The accumulation of knowledge required to produce economic value is a process that often relates to nations economic growth. Some decades ago many authors, in the absence of other available indicators, used to rely on certain measures of human capital such as years of schooling, enrollment rates, or literacy. In this paper, we show that the predictive power of years of education as a proxy for human capital started to dwindle in 1990 when the schooling of nations began to be homogenized. We developed a structural equation model that estimates a metric of human capital that is less sensitive than average years of education and remains as a significant predictor of economic growth when tested with both cross-section data and panel data.
知识的积累是产生经济价值的过程，这一过程通常与国家的经济增长有关。几十年前，许多作者在缺乏其他可用指标的情况下，曾经依赖于人力资本的某些衡量标准，如受教育年限、入学率或识字率。在本文中，我们表明，作为人力资本代理的受教育年限的预测能力在 1990 年开始减弱，当时各国的教育开始趋同。我们开发了一个结构方程模型，该模型估计的人力资本指标比平均受教育年限的敏感度低，并且在使用横截面数据和面板数据进行测试时仍然是经济增长的重要预测指标。
