Variable: Human Capital Index

QoG Code: (pwt_hci)


Dataset: Penn World Table

Description:

Human capital index based on the average years of schooling from Barro and Lee (Barro & Lee, 2013) and an assumed rate of return to education, based on Mincer equation estimates around the world (Psacharopoulos, 1994).

More information can be found in the document "Human capital in PWT 9.0"

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-01
Last updated by source: 2023-01-23


Categories:

Education


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2024 Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 143
Basic time-series: 152
Standard cross-section: 143
Standard time-series: 152
OECD cross-section: 38
OECD time-series: 40

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1950-2019
Basic time-series: 1950-2019
OECD time-series: 1950-2019

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