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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Schooling Returns for Wage Earners in Burkina Faso: Evidence from the 1994 and 1998 National Surveys
Autores: | Kazianga,   Harounan.
Data: | 2006-01-27
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Burkina Faso; Education; Labor; Labor and Human Capital; I21; J31.
Resumo: | This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be complemented with support for children, especially girls from resource constrained households to reach the secondary and tertiary levels. The estimated returns to education are strongly influenced by sample selection. For both men and women, failing to control for both selection in the wage sector and sector choice leads to biased estimates based on my identification of the selection process.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

19644

http://purl.umn.edu/28388

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Yale University&gt;Economic Growth Center&gt;Center Discussion Papers

Center Discussion Paper No. 892

Formato:

32

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