...Md Nasir Uddin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find the rate of intergenerational transmission of human capital and comparative schooling attainment between lower and higher income families using the labor force survey in Thailand. Design/methodology/approach Instrumental variable (IV...

... than the rich countries. Using data on 68 developing countries for the period 1960–1987, they find evidence that productivity growth is higher in better governed nations. Governance DEA Panel data Total factor productivity Instrumental variable Manufacturing productivity C14 C26 C23...

...) and non-LDCs. Design/methodology/approach – To perform the analysis, the author employs fixed-effects (within) regressions supplemented by instrumental variables technique based on the two-step generalized methods of moments approach. Findings – The author finds empirical evidence...