Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle
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☆ We benefited from helpful comments from Paul Rom Stanford Conference on Latin America and the Caribbea support by the Inter-American Development Bank (IAD search and Innovation of the Leibniz Association. ⁎ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 650 736 0942. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E.A. Han (L. Woessmann). URL's: http://www.hanushek.net (E.A. Hanushek), http://www.cesifo.de/woessmann (L. Woessmann). 1 Tel.: +49 89 9224 1699. 2 Even there a mystery remains, because Latin Am levels of school attainment in 2000 than does Sub-Sahar spurt in growth in Latin America might represent a turn a very uncertain extrapolation.
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