Effect of education on GDP? Educational reform?

Question

Okay, so I need any knowlegde anyone has, or papers or articles anyone knows about, that can give me mathmatical data on the effect of increased education on the GDP. Also, if anyone knows of any other countries who have had economic reform and increased their GDP? I need to know statistics about how many unemployed people and people on welfare are that way b/c of under-education. I have looked all over and I am writing a paper on the effects of increased and more structural education on our GDP- and it's turning out to be mostly about the educational changes than the GDP and the numbers which is WRONGWRONGWRONG cuz this is a macroeconomics paper. Help?

Answer 1

I don't think what you are looking for exists. There is data showing the more education people have the more they earn. There is cross country data that show countries with a better educated population have higher GDP. But GDP has many factors, so showing how much is due to education can't really be sorted out, especially since rich countries have more money to spend on the education their young.
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
has a lot of data on economic and social factors and will perform correlations so it might help. Also the UN and the world bank might have some relevant studies.

Answer 2

I liked the first response.

If you've got data that shows that education has a positive effect on personal earning--on household income--then doesn't that mean that eduction has a positive effect on GDP, because isn't one way of measuring GDP adding up all household income?