Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: Some New Evidence
为108个国家1960-2000年的人力资本不平等提供了新度量，发现全球多数国家人力资本分布不平等在下降，且人力资本不平等比收入不平等更能稳健解释增长和投资。
This paper provides new measures of human capital inequality for a broad panel of countries. Taking attainment levels from Barro and Lee (2001), we compute Gini coefficients and the distribution of education by quintiles for 108 countries over five‐year intervals from 1960 to 2000. Using this new cross‐country data on human capital inequality two main conclusions are obtained. First, most countries in the world have tended to reduce the inequality in human capital distribution. Second, human capital inequality measures provide more robust results than income inequality measures in the estimation of standard growth and investment equations.