1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Regionally unequal accumulation of human capital and educational policy
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09430018
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public finance/Monetary economics
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
OKUNO Nobuhiro Nagoya University, School of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (70022465)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KURODA Tatsuaki Nagoya University, School of Informatics and Sciences, Professor, 情報文化学部, 教授 (00183319)
MIZUTA Kenichi Hiroshima University, School of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (00157497)
YAKITA Akira Chukyo University, School of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (50135290)
OGAWA Hikaru Nagoya University, School of Economics, Lecturer, 経済学部, 講師 (10313967)
YAGI Tadashi Doshisya University, School of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (60200474)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
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| Keywords | human capital / public education / regional economy / educational grant / social capital |
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| Research Abstract |
The efficiency in accumulating human capital in a region is affected by the limited regional environment. For example, a research activity is stimulated in high quality laboratories with excellent researchers. Through the research activity in the region, the researcher embodies his research ability. This kind of positive externality is also a driving force which stimulates workers movement among regions. When we consider the externalities in human capital accumulation, the market mechanism does not necessarily achieve an optimal allocation of human capital among regions. This report studies the data of regionally unequal accumulation of human capital and examines the optimal allocation of educational public investment among regions, which achieves the largest national economic growth in a economy.
Our analysis shows that the threshold externality in human capital accumulation affects an optimal allocation policy through two changes. One is through the changes in marginal value of educational public capital, and the other is through the changes in decreasing speed of shadow prices of educational public capital. With the effects of threshold externalities and labor movements among regions, we show that the optimal pattern of regionally allocating educational public investment includes the switch of allocation from the region with large human capital to the region with small human capital. It is noteworthy that the switch of allocation may occur from the efficiency objective.
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Research Products
(2 results)
