Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2013) 3, pp. 283-301
This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is shown to have mechanically decreased along with the decline in the share of illiterate people. In search of a monetary equivalent of years of schooling, we turn to Mincer (<CitationRef...</citationref>