Wolfgang Lutz|Anne Goujon|Warren C. Sanderson
Reconstruction of populations by age, sex and level of educational attainment for 120 countries for 1970-2000
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
using demographic multistate methods back projecting populations 120 countries age sex level educational attainment 2000 1970 covering 93 percent 2000 world population paper presents ambitious effort reconstruct human capital data essential empirically studying aggregate level returns educationunlike earlier reconstruction efforts new dataset jointly produced international institute applied systems analysis iiasa vienna institute demography vid gives full educational attainment distributions four categories education primary secondary tertiary education fiveyear age groups definitions strictly comparable across timebased empirical distributions educational attainment age sex year 2000 method moves backward along cohort lines explicitly considering fact men women different education different levels mortalitythe resulting dataset allow new estimates impact agespecific human capital growth economic growth first results showunlike earlier studiesa consistently positive effect