Do modern forms of human capital matter in primitive economies? Comparative evidence from Bolivia.

Autor/inn/en	Godoy, Ricardo; Karlan, Dean S.; Rabindran, Shanti
Titel	Do modern forms of human capital matter in primitive economies? Comparative evidence from Bolivia.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 24 (2005) 1, S. 45-53Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2003.11.008
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Feldforschung; Bildungsniveau; Lesekompetenz; Mathematische Kompetenz; Entwicklungsland; Humankapital; Einkommen; Wirtschaft; Wirtschaftssystem; Entwicklung; Bolivien
Abstract	The authors examine the correlation between modern human capital and income among adult men in four foraging-horticultural societies of Bolivia. Despite their remote location, they find results similar to those found in developed nations. It was found that: (a) education correlates with 4.5% higher overall income and with 5.9% higher wages and math skills correlates with 13.5% higher cash income, and (b) the positive correlation between education or math skills and income is higher among households closer to market towns. The high returns to modern human capital even in highly autarkic economies might explain why people in those societies reduce investments in the accumulation of traditional folk knowledge. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2005/3