shows Lorenz curves for education in India and South Korea, using comparable data from 1990. By analogy with income Lorenz curves, we write the proportion of the population on the x-axis and the cumulative cumulative of years of schooling on the y-axis. Along the 45-degree line of per fect equality, everyone in the economy would have the same number of years of schooling; for example, everyone would have finished a basic eight years of school, but no one would have started secondary education. In a highly unequal economy, many people might have no years of schooling at all while a few might have received a Ph.D. from foreign universities. The closer the Lorenz curve is to the 45-degree line, the more equal the distribution of education