A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010

By Robert J. Barro, Jong‐Wha Lee. 2013

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Human capital in the long run (2016, methodology): “Recent studies have also used enrollment ratios to construct estimates of a population's educational attainment (Morrisson and Murtin, 2009; Barro and Lee, 2013, 2015).”
Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase Innovation (2015, methodology): “(2) Human Capital (Lyr_sch): As a proxy for the stock of human capital in the economy we use the total years of schooling available in the Barro and Lee (2010) database.”
Migration, diversity, and economic growth (2017, background): “To incorporate an indicator of human capital, we add the average years of school attainment of the population aged 25 and over from Barro and Lee (2013).”
The HDI 2010: new controversies, old critiques (2011, methodology): “…reading levels that could be used to construct quality adjustments are only available for a limited number of countries.46 The approach in the 2010 HDR was to adopt mean years of schooling as calculated in Barro and Lee (1993, 1996, 2001, 2010) as the indicator to measure the education of adults.”
Testing and explaining economic resilience with an application to Italian regions (2017, methodology): “For human capital, the average years of educational attainment of the population in a given region have been taken into account.8 As in Barro and Lee (2013), this measure has been obtained by weighting the educational attainment achieved by a fraction of the total population in schooling years for…”
Financial Development and Economic Growth in Developing Asia (2010, background): “Years of schooling Years of schooling Barro and Lee (2010)”
Assessing Measures of Financial Openness and Integration (2011, methodology): “The Educational Attainment variable (of adults 25 years and older) is from Barro and Lee (2010) and are five-year initial period observations, which we interpolate for annual models.”