International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications

By Robert J. Barro, Jong‐Wha Lee. 2001

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Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program (2010, neutral): “Source: Barro and Lee (1994).”
A Monte Carlo study of growth regressions (2009, neutral): “the problem identified in the discussion following equation (7).”
Does tourism influence economic growth? A dynamic panel data approach (2008, background): “Secondary years of schooling above 25 years comes from Barro and Lee (2000).”
Education for Technology Readiness: Prospects for Developing Countries (2001, methodology): “as those of Grossman and Helpman (1991, chapters 11 and 12), and Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1997), provide more concrete models that analyze the role of technology diffusion in economic growth.”
Growth, convergence and EU membership (2008, background): “5 Throughout the study (with the exception of the exercise on σ-convergence across European countries) Luxembourg was excluded from the estimations for two reasons: It is typically considered an outlier, and no data on average education years is available for this country in Barro and Lee ( 2001 ).”
Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: evidence from OECD countries (2013, methodology): “Public spending in education (taken from Busemeyer (2007)) Health Inverse of the infant mortality rate (taken from OECD Health Data ,2007) Public spending in Health (taken from OECD Health Data, 2007) Table A2: Summary statistics for outputs (PSP) and inputs (PEX) Outputs Mean Std.Dev. Min Max Years”
Both Institutions and Policies Matter but Differently for Different Income Groups of Countries: Determinants of Long-Run Economic Growth Revisited (2009, methodology): “Source: Herrera and Pang (2005), Barro and Lee (2000) and their database.”
Income and Democracy (2008, neutral): “The transmission of business cycles from one country to another through trade (e.g., Baxter, 1995, Kraay and Ventura, 2001) implies that we can think of a statistical model for income of a country as follows: Yit−1 = ζ NX j=1,j 6=i ωijYjt−1 + εit−1, (6) for all i = 1, ..., N , where Yit−1 denotes…”