International Comparisons of Educational Attainment

Robert Barro and Jong-Wha Lee

No 4349, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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. We describe a data set on educational attainment that we have constructed for 129 countries over five-year periods from 1960-1985. We use census/survey information to fill over 40% of the cells, and we use school enrollment figures in a perpetual-inventory framework to fill the remainder. The data refer to male and female attainment of the adult population at four levels: no-schooling. primary. secondary, and higher. We also provide a rough breakdown into incomplete and complete attainment at the three levels of schooling. We then take account of cross-country variations in the durations of schooling at each level to provide figures on total years of attainment.

JEL-codes: O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-04
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Published as Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 32, no. 3 (1993): 363-394.

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