Higher Education and Prosperity
From Catholic Missionaries to Luminosity in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9704512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amparo Castelló‐Climent (Universitat de València, corresponding author), Latika Chaudhary (0000-0001-7255-5804, Naval Postgraduate School), Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 616 |
| Pages | 3039-3075 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12551 |
| OpenAlex | W2760614235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 68 |
This article estimates the impact of completed higher education on economic prosperity across Indian districts. To address the endogeneity of higher education, we use the location of Catholic missionaries circa 1911 as an instrument. Catholics constitute a very small share of the population in India and their influence beyond higher education has been limited. Our instrumental variable results find a positive effect of higher education on development, as measured by light density. The results are robust to alternative measures of development, and are not driven by lower levels of schooling or other channels by which missionaries could impact current income
Demographic economics · Development economics · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Endogeneity · Geography · Higher education · Instrumental variable · Political science · Population · Prosperity · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · Economic Growth and Development · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
The historical roots of economic development
Missionaries in Latin America and Asia
Religion and Growth
The political economy of education
Poverty in India has Declined over the Last Decade but not as Much as Previously Thought
Exploring Long-Run Cultural and Economic Impacts of Religious Development Organizations Within Affiliated Populations
Spending or saving? Female empowerment and financial decisions in a matrilineal society
License to educate
Christianity and girl child health in India
Shedding light on regional growth and convergence in India
Long-term effects of access to health care
Railways and cities in India
The women-empowering effect of higher education
Holy cows and spilled milk
The Colonial Legacy in India
Protestant Missionary Education and the Diffusion of Women’s Education in Ottoman Turkey
Spatial and historical drivers of fake news diffusion
Missionary Influence and Nationalist Reactions
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India
Catholicism in early 20th century China
Indigenous Responses to Protestant Missionaries
Fostering social capital
The long-lasting effect of feudal human capital
The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access
Diarrheal disease, sanitation, and culture in India
Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India
Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling around the World
Christianity in India
National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa
Human Capital and Industrialization
Where Has All the Education Gone?
The role of human capital in economic development evidence from aggregate cross-country data
Religious Conversion in Colonial Africa
The European origins of economic development
Human Capital and Regional Development
How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?
The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment
Education and Human Capital Externalities
Institutions Don't Rule
Human Capital in Growth Regressions
Optimum Technical Change in An Aggregative Model of Economic Growth
The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation
The Diffusion of Development
Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
The “Out of Africa” Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Education for Growth
Does Schooling Cause Growth?
Christian Missionaries and Education in Former African Colonies
Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, and Growth
The Effects of Catholic Secondary Schooling on Educational Achievement
History, Institutions, and Economic Performance
On the mechanics of economic development
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
Reversal of Fortune
Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression
Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries
Africa's Development in Historical Perspective
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
The Worldwide Governance Indicators
Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)
Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors
Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India
Growth and human capital
Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital
Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour
The political economy of public goods
Mass education or a minority well educated elite in the process of growth
Endogenous Technological Change
Ethnic Inequality
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Revised estimates of the national income of India, 1900-1901 to 1946-47
Land revenues, schools and literacy
A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Do Institutions Cause Growth
Does history matter? Colonial education investments in India
Religion and Economic Growth across Countries
Religion and Economy
Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies
History Lessons
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |