estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … height and weight-for-height, and to education, proxied by years of schooling completed, by level. Biases due to household … who still managed to obtain such an education. Studies evidence is then considered on the wage returns to variation in the …

where women are much less educated. The health and schooling of children are more closely related to their mother …'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. …