Cross-Country Data on the Quantity of Schooling: a Selective Survey and Some Quality Measures

  • Authors: Angel de la Fuente.
  • BSE Working Paper: 110205 | September 15
  • Keywords: human capital , growth , measurement error
  • JEL codes: O40, I20, O30, C19
  • human capital
  • growth
  • measurement error
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Abstract

We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of OECD countries but we also provide some results for a large non-OECD sample.

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