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Title:Assessing the returns to education in The Gambia
Authors:Foltz, Jeremy D.ISNI
Gajigo, Ousman
Year:2012
Periodical:Journal of African Economies (ISSN 0963-8024)
Volume:21
Issue:4
Pages:580-608
Language:English
Geographic term:Gambia
Subjects:schooling
education
cost-benefit analysis
wage differentials
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/4/580.full.pdf
Abstract:Using three nationally representative surveys from The Gambia from 1992, 1998 and 2003, the authors estimate the private rates of returns to education in the country. To obtain consistent estimates, they exploit exogenous variation in school availability at the district level at the time current wage earners were born. The results show that the private rates of returns to education for individuals in the wage sector are quite high, although heterogeneous across regions of the country. The high rates of returns are robust to alternate formulations. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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