TY - JOUR
T1 - A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950-2010
AU - Barro, Robert J.
AU - Lee, Jong Wha
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to UNESCO Institute for Statistics for providing data and UNDP Human Development Office, Rostislav Kapelyushnikov, Tatjana Skrbecnal and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments. Ruth Francisco, Hanol Lee, and Seulki Shin have provided valuable research assistance. This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation (KRF-2006-342-B00010). The data set presented here is available online (http:/ www.barrolee.com/ ).
Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level. We compare the estimates with our previous ones (Barro and Lee, 2001) and alternative measures (Cohen and Soto, 2007). Our estimates of educational attainment provide a reasonable proxy for the stock of human capital for a broad group of countries and should be useful for a variety of empirical work.
AB - Our panel data set on educational attainment has been updated for 146 countries from 1950 to 2010. The data are disaggregated by sex and by 5-year age intervals. We have improved the accuracy of estimation by using information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level. We compare the estimates with our previous ones (Barro and Lee, 2001) and alternative measures (Cohen and Soto, 2007). Our estimates of educational attainment provide a reasonable proxy for the stock of human capital for a broad group of countries and should be useful for a variety of empirical work.
KW - Education
KW - Human capital
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.10.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84881263382
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 104
SP - 184
EP - 198
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
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