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Education, productivity, and inequality: The East African natural experiment
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Drawing on the experiences of Kenya and Tanzania, investigates how the expansion of the educational system affects productivity and the growth and distribution of income. Explains that Kenya and Tanzania, with their similar colonial background, natural resources, and economic structure, but markedly divergent educational policies, constitute a "natural experiment." Obtains measures of both reasoning ability and cognitive skill from surveys of representative samples of urban wage employees, al...
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Place of publication:
- Oxford; New York; Toronto and Melbourne
- Publication date:
- 1990-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:9482
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- 2011-08-16
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- 1990
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