Social trust and the growth of schooling
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: The paper develops a simple model to examine how social trust might affect the growth of schooling through lowering transaction costs associated with employing educated individuals. In a sample of 52 countries, the paper thereafter provides empirical evidence that trust has led to faster growth of schooling in the period 1960–2000. The findings are robust to the inclusion of a set of control variables and being estimated using an instrumental variables approach.
Source: Economics of Education Review
Author: Christian Bjørnskov
Institution: Aarhus University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3121900169