INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: BARRO, RJ; LEE, JW
• 署名单位: Korea University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3932
• DOI: 10.1016/0304-3932(93)90023-9
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 363-394
• 关键词: education; human capital formation; Economic growth

摘要

Many theories of economic growth stress the role of human capital in the form of education, but empirical studies have been hampered by inadequate data. We describe a data set on educational attainment for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960 to 1985. Census/survey figures fill over 40% of the cells, and the remainder are estimated from school-enrollment data by a perpetual-inventory method. The data refer to male and female attainment of the adult population at four levels: no schooling, primary, secondary, and higher. We also provide a rough breakdown into incomplete and complete attainment at the three levels of schooling.