The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most …, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in … the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 …