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by _0w8t 2905 days ago
From available data it is not possible to show that education has any positive influence on economical growth. What it seems happens is that economical growth bring prosperty that allows parents to send their children to high schools and universities. The book [1] shows that very convincing.

Moreover, as money spend on high education in many cases is essentially unproductive tax, sending more people to universities may even harm the growth.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Experts