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HUMAN CAPITAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: SOME NEW EVIDENCE* Amparo Castello? and Rafael Dome?nech This paper provides new measures of human capital inequality for a broad panel of countries. Taking attainment levels from Barro and Lee (2001), we compute Gini coef?cients and the distribution of education by quintiles for 108 countries over ?ve-year intervals from 1960 to 2000. Using this new cross-country data on human capital inequality two main conclusions are obtained. First, most countries in the world have tended to reduce the inequality in human capital distribution. Second, human ca