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Breton, Theodore R. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper uses a new data-set for cumulative national investment in formal schooling and a new instrument for schooling to estimate the national return on investment in 61 countries. These estimates are combined with data on the private rate of return on investment in schooling to estimate the external rate of return. In 1990 the external rate of…
Descriptors: Income, Educational Benefits, Outcomes of Education, Educational Assessment
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Lamson, Robert D.; Powel, John H., Jr. – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1972
Response to a recent article in this journal by Ewald and Kiker. Provides a costing methodology based on a similar application of input-output theory but one that is completely general with regard to possible program interrelationships. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Benefits, Higher Education, Input Output Analysis
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Filippini, Luigi – Economics of Education Review, 1981
Using an input-output framework, the author derives hypotheses on wage differentials based on the assumption that human capital (in this case, education) will explain workers' wage differentials. The hypothetical wage differentials are tested on data from the Italian economy. (RW)
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Economics, Foreign Countries, Human Capital