Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011
Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8.1 years of schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has...
