Global dynamics of Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries updated to 1950-2015

Thomas Ziesemer ()

No 2021-047, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: We update the Gini coefficients of education to include the year 2015, added to the Barro-Lee data set recently. A panel analysis shows that every five years education inequality falls by 2.8 percentage points. A stable average value is predicted to be 0.22. Kernel densities loose their twin peaks when going from 1955 to later years.

Keywords: Gini coefficients of education; new data; trend; stability; changing global distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 I24 I25 O15 Y1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-26
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