Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling : Defining A New Macro Measure of Education

Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling : Defining A New Macro Measure of Education

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses—the average number of years of schooling in a population—is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent resea...

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Main Authors: Filmer, Deon, Rogers, Halsey, Angrist, Noam, Sabarwal, Shwetlena
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
LEARNING
YEARS OF SCHOOLING
HUMAN CAPITAL
RETURNS TO EDUCATION
STUDENT TESTING
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/243261538075151093/Learning-Adjusted-Years-of-Schooling-LAYS-Defining-A-New-Macro-Measure-of-Education
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30464

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/243261538075151093/Learning-Adjusted-Years-of-Schooling-LAYS-Defining-A-New-Macro-Measure-of-Education
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30464

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