Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - In: Journal of Human Capital 3 (2009) 1, pp. 1-42
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto database. We use a measurement error framework to merge the two databases, while correcting for a systematic...