Education, Economic Development, and Technology Transfer: A Colonial Test
检验了伊斯特林等人的假说：第三世界引进现代技术和经济发展前景主要取决于当地正规教育水平。研究发现，教育与制造业的相关性远低于与矿业部门的相关性，而矿业是殖民经济的飞地和欠发达的象征。
I test the hypothesis advanced by Richard Easterlin and others that the importation of modern technology and prospects for economic development in the Third World are principally a function of the local population's formal schooling. According to orthodoxy, manufacturing more than any other sector should repay investment in human capital. Yet the correlation of schooling with the manufacturing sector is much lower than with the mineral sector, an enclave in colonial economies and a symbol of underdevelopment.