Micro Census, we estimate the risk and returns to around 70 fields of education and differentiate between vocational and … academic education. We identify fields of education that are efficient investment goods, i.e. high returns at a given level of … risk, and fields that are chosen for other (non-monetary) reasons. Furthermore, we rank fields of education by their return …

. However, we also find that ability and education are inseparable determinants of earnings, which confirms findings of recent …

It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an … important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have … demand for education. It is theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict …

larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa, should not …