Replication Data for: Mincerian Returns to Education

This database combines two large datasets. Psacharopoulos and Patrinos (2018) includes 1,120 estimates from 139 countries. Montenegro and Patrinos (2023) presents a comparable set of returns to education, with estimates for 142 economies from 1970 to 2014, based on 853 harmonized household surveys. The new combined dataset includes estimates of the returns to schooling from 1,973 surveys in 165 countries. This compilation provides estimates of private rates of return to education for 97 percent of the world’s population.