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due to increases in school enrollment, especially at the secondary and tertiary
levels in the earlier periods (Barro and Lee, 2015). Nevertheless, there remains a
substantial gap between advanced and developing countries.
The empirical literature commonly uses two measures of educational
inequality: the standard deviation of schooling (De Gregorio and Lee, 2002)
and the education Gini coefficient (Castelló and Doménech, 2002; Lee and
Lee, 2018). This study adopts the education Gini coefficient for the measure of
educational inequality. Figure 2 shows that educational inequality, measured by
the education Gini coefficient, has declined continuously in all groups during
the sample period. The income distribution in advanced countries is, on average,
much more equal than that in developing countries.
Education Gini
Year
World Advanced
Developing
Figure 2. Trends of Educational Inequality from 1980 to 2015 for 138
Economies
