Nos simulations du document P25 sur l'évolution utilisées de l'inégalité mondiale de 1992 à 2030 reposent sur l'hypothèse que les distributions à l'intérieur des pays sont parfaitement stables depuis 1992. Nous avions repris pour toutes les années les distributions internes de 1992...

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 (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...

[eng] This article provides, for the first time, an estimate of the world distribution of individual years of schooling, taking into account inequalities within and between countries. Our estimates concern this distribution from 1870 to 2000. In 1870, inequality was very high, since 75 % of the...

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is shown to have mechanically decreased along with the decline in the share of illiterate people. In search of a monetary equivalent of years of schooling, we turn to Mincer (<CitationRef...</citationref>