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Science 22 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5866, pp. 1047 - 1048
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151753
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Policy Forum

ECONOMICS:
The Demography of Educational Attainment and Economic Growth

Wolfgang Lutz,1* Jesus Crespo Cuaresma,2 Warren Sanderson3

Complementing primary education with secondary education in broad segments of the population is likely to give a strong boost to economic growth.

1Vienna Institute of Demography (Austrian Academy of Sciences), A-1040 Vienna, and World Population Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria.

2University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, and World Population Program, IIASA

3Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA, and World Population Program, IIASA

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: lutz{at}iiasa.ac.at

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