Economic Growth

在之前的国家科学基金资助下，研究人员收集并在互联网上放置了一个国际数据集，其中包括大量对分析经济增长决定因素有用的经济、政治和社会变量。本项目的重点是在广泛的国家范围内改进衡量学校成绩质量和质量的措施。这些资料包括学生在国际可比考试中的成绩，将被纳入关于经济增长决定因素的最新数据。还将成立一个长期小组，其中包括民主指标和政治结构的其他方面。这些信息将与经济表现、学校教育和其他变量相结合，用于评估政治结构的决定因素，包括民主程度。

9711213 Barro Under their previous NSF grant the investigators assembled and placed on the internet an international data set that includes a large number of economic, political, and social variables useful for analyzing the determination of economic growth. This project concentrates on improving measures of the quality and quality of school attainment for a broad cross section of countries. This information, which includes student performance on internationally comparable examinations, will be incorporated into an updated version of the data on the determinants of economic growth. A long-term panel will also be assembled that includes indicators of democracy and other aspects of political structure. This information will be merged with measures of economic performance, schooling, and other variables and used to assess the determinants of political structure, including the extent of democracy.