The Returns to Education in Rwanda - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
Journal Articles Journal of African Economies Year : 2005

The Returns to Education in Rwanda

Abstract

Based on data from the 1999–2001 Household Living Conditions Survey conducted by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, we estimate wage equations for employees in Rwanda, treating the choice of employment sector as an endogenous process and making separate estimates for workers in the modern and traditional sectors of the economy. The results show that returns to education increase with the level of education, contrary to the pattern typically reported in the literature and that the returns to higher education is particularly high in Rwanda. A noteworthy feature in the results is that the returns to education are quite different across sectors of employment. In the informal sector, the returns to primary education and those to vocational and secondary general education exceed by a relatively large margin, the returns to the corresponding levels of education in the modern sector. A decomposition of the wage differentials across sectors of employment indicate that personal endowments, particularly in terms of educational attainment, are more important in accounting for the wage gaps, than are the difference in their impact on earnings.
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halshs-00006413 , version 1 (30-05-2024)

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Gérard Lassibille, Jee-Peng Tan. The Returns to Education in Rwanda. Journal of African Economies, 2005, 14 (1), pp.92-116. ⟨10.1093/jae/ejh035⟩. ⟨halshs-00006413⟩
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