A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010. NBER Working Paper No. 15902.

By Robert J. Barro, Jong-Wha Lee. 2010

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• Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth (2012, unknown): “Since annual data is required to retrieve the human capital series, we linearly interpolate the Barro and Lee (2010) dataset.”
• Economic Policies and FDI Inflows to Emerging Market Economies (2011, unknown): “Education: We use the average years of school attainment in 1990, using a dataset constructed by Barro and Lee (2010).”
• Revisiting the Role of Education for Agricultural Productivity (2013, unknown): “  Using a panel of 95 developing and middle‐income  countries  from 1961  to 2002  together  with  the  newest  version  of  the  Barro‐Lee  educational  attainment  dataset  (Barro  and  Lee  2010),  we  show  that  there  is  indeed  a  positive  impact  of  educational  attainment  on …”
• Does Education Matter for Economic Growth? (2014, unknown): “Our education datasets are those constructed by Nehru et al. (1995), hereafter NSD; de la Fuente and Doménech (2002), hereafter DD; Cohen and Soto (2007), hereafter CS; Lutz et al. (2007), hereafter IIASA-VID; and Barro and Lee (2010), hereafter BL.4”
• The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms (2017, unknown): “…address the fact that skill levels differ across countries, we follow Eaton and Kortum (2002) and use human capital adjusted wages, wHCadji = (wi)e −0.06Hi , where Hi is the years of schooling from Barro and Lee (2010) and 0.06 represents the return to education estimated in Bils and Klenow (2000).”
• Intelligence and corruption (2012, unknown): “I have also included further control variables to address possible concerns on omitted variable bias: average years of schooling (Barro and Lee 2010), social trust (Bjørnskov 2011), size of the shadow economy (Dreher and Schneider 2010), an OECD dummy variable, trade openness (Penn World Tables…”
• The Rise of Middle Kingdoms: Emerging Economies in Global Trade (2012, unknown): “Figure 4 plots countries’ revealed comparative advantage in office machines— Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) industry 75—averaged over 2006 to 2008, against the average years of schooling of the adult population in 2005 (Barro and Lee, 2010).”
• The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (2013, unknown): “This data was in turn merged with the country panel dataset on education measures by gender from Barro and Lee (2010).”
• Resources, Policies, and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, unknown): “Barro and Lee (2010) have recently updated their internationally comparable average schooling-level estimates for the working-age population, by country and over time.”