Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly...

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Main Authors:	Filmer, Deon, Rogers, Halsey, Angrist, Noam, Sabarwal, Shwetlena
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2022
Subjects:	EDUCATION LEARNING SCHOOLING HUMAN CAPITAL RETURNS TO EDUCATION TEST SCORES
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37067

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spelling	okr-10986-370672022-03-04T05:10:46Z Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education Filmer, Deon Rogers, Halsey Angrist, Noam Sabarwal, Shwetlena EDUCATION LEARNING SCHOOLING HUMAN CAPITAL RETURNS TO EDUCATION TEST SCORES The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly different learning outcomes. We therefore propose a new summary measure, the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). This measure combines quantity and quality of schooling into a single easy-to-understand metric of progress, revealing considerably larger cross-country education gaps than the standard metric. We show that the comparisons produced by this measure are robust to different ways of adjusting for learning and that LAYS is consistent with other evidence, including other approaches to quality adjustment. Like other learning measures, LAYS reflects learning, and barriers to learning, both inside and outside of school; also, cross-country comparability of LAYS rests on assumptions related to learning trajectories and the validity, reliability, and comparability of test data. Acknowledging these limitations, we argue that LAYS nonetheless improves on the standard metric in key ways. 2022-03-03T07:52:00Z 2022-03-03T07:52:00Z 2020-08-01 Journal Article Economics of Education Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37067 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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spellingShingle	EDUCATION LEARNING SCHOOLING HUMAN CAPITAL RETURNS TO EDUCATION TEST SCORES Filmer, Deon Rogers, Halsey Angrist, Noam Sabarwal, Shwetlena Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
description	The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly different learning outcomes. We therefore propose a new summary measure, the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). This measure combines quantity and quality of schooling into a single easy-to-understand metric of progress, revealing considerably larger cross-country education gaps than the standard metric. We show that the comparisons produced by this measure are robust to different ways of adjusting for learning and that LAYS is consistent with other evidence, including other approaches to quality adjustment. Like other learning measures, LAYS reflects learning, and barriers to learning, both inside and outside of school; also, cross-country comparability of LAYS rests on assumptions related to learning trajectories and the validity, reliability, and comparability of test data. Acknowledging these limitations, we argue that LAYS nonetheless improves on the standard metric in key ways.
format	Journal Article
author	Filmer, Deon Rogers, Halsey Angrist, Noam Sabarwal, Shwetlena
author_facet	Filmer, Deon Rogers, Halsey Angrist, Noam Sabarwal, Shwetlena
author_sort	Filmer, Deon
title	Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
title_short	Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
title_full	Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
title_fullStr	Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
title_full_unstemmed	Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education
title_sort	learning-adjusted years of schooling : defining a new macro measure of education
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2022
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Learning-adjusted years of schooling : Defining a new macro measure of education

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