Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the … percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for … Africans than for whites. These rates increased at higher levels of education for both race groups. …

education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage … gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans … than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race groups at higher levels of education. The lower quantity (or …

negatively correlated, suggesting that efforts at strengthening the supply and quality of basic education programs in recent …. Parents' education is positively associated with literacy. Distance to the nearest primary school, residency in a rural area …, which may partly explain the lack of return to education other than middle school and technical/professional training. The …

who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in WWII, children … who were ten years old during the conflict were significantly less likely to proceed into higher education. On the … individuals who did not reach higher education because of the conflict and we compute the implied loss of GDP for their countries …

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