recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …-94 using a large national level household survey data. The data show that the returns to education increases up to the … schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and …

's education than father's. More educated women work more hours in the market labor force, broadening the tax base and thereby … expenditures toward women's education. …

at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the … percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for … Africans than for whites. These rates increased at higher levels of education for both race groups. …

This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … 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 …

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …