Acta Oeconomica
Volume/Issue:
Volume 68: Issue 4
Does the post-socialist past determine the relationship between GDP per capita and education? Evidence from Europe
Authors:
Zsuzsanna Banász MTA-PE Budapest Ranking Research Group, Veszprém, Hungary

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Vivien Valéria Csányi MTA-PE Budapest Ranking Research Group, Veszprém, Hungary

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Pages:
573–589
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2018
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2018
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/032.2018.68.4.5
Keywords:
education; economic wealth; European countries; post-socialist past; developed market economies; correlation; I25; O57; P20
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Education is one of the key factors of economic growth. Despite the huge amount of researches investigating the relationship between education and GDP as a proxy of well-being, to the best of our knowledge, none of these studies examined a group of post-socialist countries comparing with not-post-socialist countries. This paper aims to fill this gap. We examine the correlation between growth and education with panel data evidence for 18 post-socialist (PS) countries and 16 developed market economies (DME) over the 1990–2014 period. The goal of this paper is to test two hypotheses: (i) The relationship between GDP per capita and tertiary education’s enrolment rate is stronger in the post-socialist countries than in other countries. (ii) In the post-socialist countries, the relationship between GDP per capita and tertiary education’s enrolment rate is stronger than the relationship between GDP per capita and any other level of education. Correlation analyses confirmed both hypotheses. Our findings suggest that the patterns of relationship between GDP and measures of tertiary education are different for PS and DME countries and would be interesting to observe when and how the gap between the patterns disappears.

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