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Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?

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This graph shows the mean years of schooling in adult populations for developed and developing regions, from 1870 to 2010. The developed countries have made steady progress from 2.8 years in 1870 to 12 years in 2010. The developing countries have made slower progress from 0.5 years in 1870 to 6.5 years in 2010.

 4.4 Educational inequalities