Educação básica, capital humano e crescimento econômico: uma análise para os estados brasileiros

Abstract

This study intends to analyze the influence of human capital on the economic growth of the Brazilian states considering the quality of basic education in the composition of human capital. The paper addresses the period from 2005 to 2014, which implies to use panel data models. We used the model developed by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) and the Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) to insert the quality of basic education in the human capital proxy. In order to capture the heterogeneity from the Brazilian states and to treat the detected heteroskedasticity and serial autocorrelation, we had chosen to use the random effects model with the Generalized Least Squares (GLS) method. The adopted model has shown adequate for the proposed objective.