Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 824-841
Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …