Technical Change and Human-Capital Returns and Investments: Evidence from the Green Revolution

American Economic Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 931-953

  Foster, Andrew D ^a   Rosenzweig, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENT; GREEN REVOLUTION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; RURAL ECONOMY; TECHNICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

INDIA;

EID: 0030404536     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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