Andreas Papandreou and Human Capital Formation in Greece

Archibald, George Break, Howard Ellis, Tilo Kuhn, Ralph
Turvey.
The researchers, senior fellows, would focus on a topic of their
expertise that was relevant to Greek economic development. At
the end, they would turn in a research monograph and/or a set of
lecture notes. Seminars were given by senior fellows, attended by
all fellows and economists from the Bank of Greece.
The juniors were assigned as research assistants to the seniors
for the duration of the projects. They would start up by working
on statistical data and eventually would do proofreading of manuscripts.
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The juniors were unhappy with project deadlines but they
were surprisingly not interested in compensation for extra hours of
work. In other words, the people were eager to work in teams and
were not concerned with leisure time.
It is also worth mentioning that the seniors mentored their
juniors who, in turn, built up expectations for studying in the
United States. Moreover, all seniors were instrumental in securing
financial assistantships for their juniors.' A partial list of juniors
who obtained graduate assistantships during 1961-65 follows:
Andreas Andricopoulos, Fanis Benos, George Christou,
Kimon Constas, Sofia Efstratoglou, Costas Englezakos,
Theodoros Gamaletsos, Nicolaos Glitsos, Michael Hatziprokopiou,
Michael Hatzimichael, Vaso Ikonomopoulou,
Andreas Kintis, Theodoros Lianos, Despina Lianou,
Annivas Milonas, Christos Paraskevopoulos, Kyprianos
Prodromidis, George Psacharopoulos, Theodoros Skoutzos,
Socrates Tountas, George Venieris, Theodoros
Voyadj is.
Besides the visiting researchers, there were students from US
universities engaged in dissertation writing (J. Nugent, J.
Despres, R. Miller, L. Shaw, and D. Psilos).
There are two general points that can be made about the ABD
students. The first is that they worked on several areas (e.g. inputoutput
table, labor market, banking). Thus, the Center had additional
research in the "pipeline." The next point is that they were
peers to the juniors; indeed, the juniors could learn a good deal
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