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Global dynamics of Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries updated to 1950-2015

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  • Ziesemer, Thomas

    (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University)

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We update the Gini coefficients of education to include the year 2015, added to the Barro-Lee data set recently. A panel analysis shows that every five years education inequality falls by 2.8 percentage points. A stable average value is predicted to be 0.22. Kernel densities loose their twin peaks when going from 1955 to later years.

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  • Ziesemer, Thomas, 2021. "Global dynamics of Gini coefficients of education for 146 countries updated to 1950-2015," MERIT Working Papers 2021-047, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2021047
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    Keywords

    Gini coefficients of education; new data; trend; stability; changing global distribution;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I25 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Economic Development
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • Y1 - Miscellaneous Categories - - Data: Tables and Charts

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