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Research Article

Education quality and the empirics of economic growth: reconciling Mankiw-Romer-Weil estimates with microeconometric evidence

Mauro Rodriguesa Department of Economics, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BrazilCorrespondence[email protected]
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Danilo Souzab Department of Economics, Insper, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pages 470-476 | Published online: 14 May 2020

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