Abstract
The question in this paper is whether R\&D efforts affect education performance in small classes. Merging two datasets collected from the PISA studies and the World Development Indicators and using Learning Bayesian Networks, we prove the existence of a statistical causal relationship between investment in R\&D of a country and its education performance (PISA scores). We also prove that the effect of R\&D on Education is long term as a country has to invest in R&D at least 10 years before beginning to improve the level of young pupils.
Highlights
Education is considered among the basic human rights all over the world.This is not surprising after the abundant literature recognizing the numerous benefits of education
Merging two datasets collected from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) studies and the World Development Indicators and using Learning Bayesian Networks, we prove the existence of a statistical causal relationship between investment in R&D of a country and its education performance (PISA scores)
We evaluate the efficiency of R&D in the performance of Education obtained from the comparison of the estimated performance of education and the observed value
Summary
Education is considered among the basic human rights all over the world This is not surprising after the abundant literature recognizing the numerous benefits of education. Numerous studies exist to measure the short-term effects of Research and Development. “we know surprisingly little about their long-term effects. This is a pity, because the conventional justifications for state intervention in research depend upon phenomena that are inherently long term in nature.” (Arnold, 2012) To the best of our knowledge, there is no study linking R&D and education both are components of the Preprint submitted to Journal Name same educative system. We measure the lag between the R&D funding and its effect on education performance and prove that this effect is long term as a country has to invest at least 10 years before beginning to improve the level of young pupils
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