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 …

supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. … relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic … density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of …

survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … wages. The results suggest that migrants are better educated and obtain higher wages than non-migrants, controlling for … other factors (including education), and also obtain higher returns to their education. In other words, the more educated …

the determinants of the least squares bias of the wage return to education. We find that disregarding individual fixed …

paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …