A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950-2010

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong Wha
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Korea University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.10.001
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 184-198
• 关键词: education; human capital

摘要

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. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.