Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174341 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 45-2017
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
The resource curse hypothesis suggests that resource-rich countries (especially oil dependent economies) show lower economic growth rates compared to resource-poor countries. We add to this literature by providing empirical evidence on a new transmission channel of the resource curse, namely, the negative long-run effect of oil rents on the quality of education. Our empirical analysis for more than 70 countries in the period of 1995-2015 shows a significantly positive effect of oil rents on the quantity of education measured by government spending on primary and secondary education. However, we find a robust and negative long-run effect of oil rents dependency on the objective and subjective indicators of quality of education, controlling for a set of other drivers of education quality and regional dummies. The significant negative effect of oil rents dependency on education quality can be explained by both the demand (e.g., skill acquisition) and supply (e.g., teacher quality) side channels.
Subjects: 
oil rents
resource curse
quality of education
quantity of education
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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