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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low returns to education, a relevant question is what causes low...
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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Mission Sucre students in the state, returns to university level of education declined by about 5.6 percentage points between …
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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
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