Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98346 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Center Discussion Paper No. 892
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso. Mincer earning regressions are fitted to wage data for women and men, and for public and private sector workers. The main results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be complemented with support for children, especially girls from resource constrained households to reach the secondary and tertiary levels. The estimated returns to education are strongly influenced by sample selection. For both men and women, failing to control for both selection in the wage sector and sector choice leads to biased estimates based on my identification of the selection process.
Subjects: 
Burkina
Education
Labor
JEL: 
I21
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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