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: 2024-10-18
Last updated by source: 2023-01-23


Categories:

Education


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2025 Basic Time-series - 2025 OECD Cross-section - 2025 OECD Time-series - 2025 Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 142
Basic time-series: 143
Standard cross-section: 142
Standard time-series: 143
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32

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

This variable has information for these countries:

Click here to see the full list of countries



This variable has information from the year 1950 to the year 2019