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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 131-140Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2018.02.001
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Human capital; Education; Health; Economic growth; Sub-Saharan Africa
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This paper revisits the debate on the possible impact of human capital on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and considers two alternative measures of human capital: health and education. The study employs a dynamic model based on the system generalized method of moments (SGMM) and analysed a balanced panel data covering 35 countries from 1980-2008. The empirical results show that the two measures of human capital have positive effects on economic growth, although the contribution of health is relatively larger than the impact of education. This finding emphasizes the importance of both measures of human capital and aligns with the argument in the literature that neither education nor health is a perfect substitute for the other as a measure of human capital. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Economic Society of Australia, Queensland.
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