Cross-Country Data on the Quantity of Schooling: a Selective Survey and Some Quality Measures

Abstract

We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of OECD countries but we also provide some results for a large non-OECD sample.