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Bartlett, Lesley – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: In the field of educational research, conventional wisdom holds that primary-level schooling, specifically literacy acquisition, promotes economic mobility for individuals and economic development for the nation. This belief is rooted in human capital theory, the causal argument claiming that state investment in schooling or…
Descriptors: Productivity, Economic Progress, Research Design, Human Capital