Afghanistan, United Arab Emirates, Argentina...and 106 more, 1960-1985
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. The authors describe a data set on educational attainment for 120 countries over five- year perio… Read more
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. The authors describe a data set on educational attainment for 120 countries over five- year periods from 1960 to 1985. Census and 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 lev Read less
Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee
ID: WLD_1960-1985_EAD_v01_M
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