Mulligan, Casey B; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - In: Journal of Economic Growth 5 (2000) 3, pp. 215-52
We construct a set of human capital indexes for the states of the United States for each census year starting in 1940. To do so, we propose a new methodology for the construction of index numbers in panel data sets. Our method is based on an optimal approach by which we choose the "best" set of...