Cross-country school enrollment ratio data

Lee and Lee (2016) compile historical school enrollment ratios by gender since 1820 for 111 countries.

• Downloadable here
• This is an updated version of the dataset compiled by Barro, Robert J. and Jong-Wha Lee (2015) Education Matters: Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century (Oxford University Press) 

Aaron Benavot and Phyllis Riddle (1988) compiled cross-country data on the primary school enrollment ratio in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

• Used by Algan and Cahuc (2010) to check the robustness of their finding that trust boosts economic growth.