Education Matters

Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century

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ID19974751
AuthorsRobert J Barros (0000-0003-3761-827X), Robert J Barro, Jong‐wha Lee (0000-0002-3152-4961), Jong-Wha Lee
Year2015
Pages304
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEducation Matters (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379231.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236040195
Open LibraryOL27517507M
ISBN9780199379231
LanguageEN
Citations received49

In the past half century, human capital has emerged as one of the most active areas of research in economics. This book's efforts at constructing useful measures of educational attainment for a broad panel of countries go back 20 years. It extends earlier work by presenting and discussing a new long-term data set on educational attainment of the population for 146 countries for the period from 1870 to 2010. In addition, it provides new data on educational quality, based on internationally comparable test scores for 134 countries from 1965 to 2010. It uses the new data to analyze linkages across countries and over time between education and important economic and political variables, such as economic growth, fertility, and democracy. The book also presents projections of educational attainment for a broad group of countries up to 2040

Democracy · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Human capital · Panel data · Political science · Politics · Population · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Economic development · Longitudinal studies · School attendance · School enrollment · School environment

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