Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 
Author-Name: Ziesemer, Thomas
Author-Email: ziesemer@merit.unu.edu
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University, SBE
Title: Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries, 1950-2010 
Abstract: We provide Gini coefficients of education based on data from Barro and 
	 Lee (2010) for 146 countries for the years 1950-2010. We compare them to 
	 an earlier data set and run some related LOESS fit regressions on 
	 average years of schooling and GDP per capita, both showing negative 
	 slopes, and among the latter two variables. Tertiary education is shown 
	 to reduce education inequality. A growth regression shows that tertiary 
	 education increases growth, Gini coefficients of education have a 
	 u-shaped impact on growth and labour force growth has an inverted 
	 u-shape effect on growth.
Keywords: Human capital, Human capital distribution, education, inequality, growth,
	 new data
Classification-JEL: E24, I24, I25, O15, Y10
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20160829
Number: 2016-044
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2016/wp2016-044.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2016044