Measuring Human Capital
Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 pe...
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okr-10986-312802022-09-20T00:12:53Z Measuring Human Capital Angrist, Noam Djankov, Simeon Goldberg, Pinelopi K. Patrinos, Harry A. HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION EDUCATION ENROLLMENT LEARNING GENDER ECONOMIC GROWTH Students around the world are going to school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will be publicly available and updated annually by the World Bank. The paper presents several stylized facts in a first application of the data: (a) although enrollment has increased worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls outperform boys on learning -- a positive gender gap -- in contrast to a negative gender gap observed for schooling; (c) learning is associated with growth on a global scale; (d) associations with growth are heterogenous; and (e) human capital accounts for up to a third of cross-country income differences -- a middle ground in the recent development accounting literature. These stylized facts demonstrate the potential of the data to reveal new insights into the relationship between human capital and economic development. 2019-02-14T19:22:33Z 2019-02-14T19:22:33Z 2019-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/540801550153933986/Measuring-Human-Capital http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31280 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8742 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION EDUCATION ENROLLMENT LEARNING GENDER ECONOMIC GROWTH Angrist, Noam Djankov, Simeon Goldberg, Pinelopi K. Patrinos, Harry A. Measuring Human Capital |
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Students around the world are going to
school but are not learning -- an emerging gap in human
capital formation. To understand this gap, this paper
introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164
countries and territories. The data cover 98 percent of the
world's population from 2000 to 2017. The data set will
be publicly available and updated annually by the World
Bank. The paper presents several stylized facts in a first
application of the data: (a) although enrollment has
increased worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls
outperform boys on learning -- a positive gender gap -- in
contrast to a negative gender gap observed for schooling;
(c) learning is associated with growth on a global scale;
(d) associations with growth are heterogenous; and (e) human
capital accounts for up to a third of cross-country income
differences -- a middle ground in the recent development
accounting literature. These stylized facts demonstrate the
potential of the data to reveal new insights into the
relationship between human capital and economic development. |
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Angrist, Noam Djankov, Simeon Goldberg, Pinelopi K. Patrinos, Harry A. |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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