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 is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly...

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Main Authors: Filmer, Deon, Rogers, Halsey, Angrist, Noam, Sabarwal, Shwetlena
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37067