Education Matters: Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century

Synopsis

Recently Human Capital Has Emerged As One Of The Most Active Areas Of Research In Economics. This Research Depends Fundamentally On Good Data, And Efforts At Constructing Useful Measures Of Educational Attainment For A Broad Panel Of Countries Go Back 20 Years. In This Book The Extend The Earlier Work Is Extended By Presenting And Discussing A New Long-term Data Set On Educational Attainment Of The Population For 146 Countries From 1870 To 2010. In Addition, New Data Is Given On Educational Quality Based On Internationally Comparable Test Scores For 134 Countries From 1965 To 2010. Ch. 1. Introduciton -- Overview -- The Origin And Global Expansion Of Education -- Ch. 2. International Comparisons Of School Enrollment And Educational Attainment, 1870-2010 -- School Enrollment Trends From 1820 To 2010 -- Determinants Of School Enrollments -- Estimating Educational Attainment, 1950-2010 -- Estimating Historical Educational Attainment, 1870-1945 -- Trends In Educational Attainment -- Gender Disparity In Educational Attainment -- Comparison With Other Data Sets -- Ch. 3. Projections Of Educational Attainment For 2015-2040 -- Projection Methods -- Population Projections -- Projections Of Enrollment Ratios -- Educational Attainment By Education Level And Gender, 2010-2040 -- Comparisons With Existing Projections -- Ch. 4. Educational Attainment And Economic And Political Developments, 1960-2010 -- Theories Of Human Capital And Economic Growth -- Human Capital And Cross-country Income Differences -- Growth Accounting -- Cross-country Growth Regressions -- Relationships Between Education And Fertility -- Relationships Between Education And Political Development -- Ch. 5. Historical Evidenc Eon The Effects Of Education On Growth, Fertility, And Demoncracy, 1870-2010 -- Long-term Historical Data Set -- Global Trends In Economic, Demographic, And Political Developments -- Regressions For Growth Rates Of Per-worker Gdp -- Regressions For Fertility -- Regressions For Democracy -- Ch. 6. Educational Attainment - Quantity And Quality Of Schooling -- International Data On Student Outcomes -- Determinants Of Educational Quality -- Measures Of Adult Skills -- Relations Between Eeducational Attainment And Educational Quality -- Educational Quality, Human Capital, And Economic Growth. Robert J. Barro And Jong-wha Lee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.