Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009
average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We use a measurement error framework to merge the two databases, while …. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We … find evidence of fast convergence in years of schooling for a sub-sample of advanced countries during the 1870 …