Learning-adjusted years of schooling: Defining a new macro measure of education

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.101971

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Learning-adjusted years of schooling: Defining a new macro measure of education

dc.contributor.author	Rogers, Halsey
dc.contributor.author	Filmer, Deon
dc.contributor.author	Angrist, Noam
dc.contributor.author	Sabarwal, Shwetlena
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-03T07:52:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-03T07:52:00Z
dc.date.issued	2020-08-01
dc.description.abstract	The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses is a quantity-based one: The average number of years of schooling in a population. But as recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly different learning outcomes. We therefore propose a new summary measure, the Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS). This measure combines quantity and quality of schooling into a single easy-to-understand metric of progress, revealing considerably larger cross-country education gaps than the standard metric. We show that the comparisons produced by this measure are robust to different ways of adjusting for learning and that LAYS is consistent with other evidence, including other approaches to quality adjustment. Like other learning measures, LAYS reflects learning, and barriers to learning, both inside and outside of school; also, cross-country comparability of LAYS rests on assumptions related to learning trajectories and the validity, reliability, and comparability of test data. Acknowledging these limitations, we argue that LAYS nonetheless improves on the standard metric in key ways.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Economics of Education Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/37067
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/37067
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	LEARNING
dc.subject	SCHOOLING
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	RETURNS TO EDUCATION
dc.subject	TEST SCORES
dc.title	Learning-adjusted years of schooling	en
dc.title.subtitle	Defining a new macro measure of education	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
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okr.date.disclosure	2023-08-01
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:06:14.509294Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.econedurev.2020.101971
okr.journal.nbpages	101971
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.sector	Education
okr.topic	Education::Educational Policy and Planning
okr.topic	Education::Educational Populations
okr.topic	Education::Educational Sciences
okr.topic	Education::Educational Technology and Distance Education
okr.topic	Education::Knowledge for Development
okr.unit	Development Research Group
okr.volume	77
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