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• TITLE: Educational Levels and Export Performance of Iranian Industries

  AUTHORS: Vahid Mehrbani

  KEYWORDS: Human Capital, Education, Export, Industry

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.8 No.8, June 7, 2018

  ABSTRACT: This paper examines a composite implication of human capital theory and knowledge-based economy literature with regard to export performance of Iranian industries. It is expected that education particularly in higher levels contributes to the expansion of export. This is the hypothesis that is tested by underlying the Branson’s export function and using a panel data of industries with two-digit codes in 2003-2013. Results show that education only in MA (MS) and PhD levels has positive and significant effect on export but lower levels of education have no effect. The coefficients indicate that a 1 percent increase in completion of MA (MS) and PhD degrees will increase the export of industry by 0.18 (0.15) percent respectively. It seems that education contributes to export in higher levels but has no important role in lower levels. It is indicated that the results are somewhat in contrast to filter theory proposed by Arrow (1973).