The Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

Youth Human Capital and Economic Development Working Group

Human capital is arguably the most important input to economic growth and development. Production of ready-for-work young adults is possibly a society's most important economic need.

The Youth Human Capital and Economic Development Working Group focuses on the relationships between child development and education and economic growth and development, including performance-contingent financing, comparative regional and national economic development strategies, market failures to accurately price the value of human capital, and national fiscal and monetary stabilization policies.