primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … countries. However, our study is the first one to estimate the impact of the compulsory schooling extended in a centrally …

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on …

height and weight-for-height, and to education, proxied by years of schooling completed, by level. Biases due to household …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this … supply explanation for the corresponding high rates of return to secondary and post-secondary schooling for those nonwhites …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …