TY  - JOUR
AU  - Barro,Robert J.
AU  - Lee,Jong-Wha
TI  - International Comparisons of Educational Attainment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4349
PY  - 1993
Y2  - April 1993
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4349
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4349.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert J. Barro
Department of Economics
Littauer Center 218
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-3203
Fax: 617/496-8629
E-Mail: rbarro@harvard.edu

Jong-Wha Lee
Economics Research Department
Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City
1550 Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel: +63 2 632 4900
Fax: +63 2 636 2183
E-Mail: jongwha@korea.ac.kr
AB  - 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.
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