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Published: 2000

International data on educational attainment: updates and implications

Update of Barro-Lee dataset
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Presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. The authors' previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000.

Discusses the estimation method for the measures of educational attainment and relate our estimates to alternative international measures of human capital stocks.

The dataset itself is available at http://www2.cid.harvard.edu/ciddata/

Previous work on this dataset is available at:

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Authors

Robert J. Barro; Jong-Wha Lee

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