Education Matters: Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century

by Robert J. Barro and Jong-wha Lee

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Education has significant and far-reaching effects not only on individuals, but also on the societies in which they live and to which they contribute. The education level of a population affects how a country supports itself and others and the degree to which it can participate in the global field. While everyone from politicians to policymakers to celebrities has stressed the importance of education, there has not been-until now-a vigorous yet comprehensible examination of data to support what has long been common knowledge: education matters.

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  • ISBN10 0199379238
  • ISBN13 9780199379231
  • Publish Date 20 August 2015 (first published 7 July 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English