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 …

of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and … cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

public spending on human capital and their correlates in Africa. The study found public spending on health and education in … Africa to be inefficient. Efficiency was much higher in health spending than in educational spending. Factors such as …