, controlling for legal origins and geography. Utilizing freshly collected data on colonial-era population density and education, we …-institutions channel. The effect of education is robust to including variables capturing legal origin and geography, which have additional … explanatory power. We also find some evidence that institutions are endogenous to education. …

This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African … (SADC) region. The paper concludes by suggesting how the education sector can improve its management response to the …

In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three … channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational … educational inequality may, given a positive correlation between education level and income, reduce income inequality. Thirdly, an …

education. …