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Education, productivity, and inequality: The East African natural experiment

Abstract:

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
Language:
English
UUID:
uuid:8b0d5c6d-fe7b-4876-a79c-ed5edb5e6e58
Local pid:
oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:9482
Deposit date:
2011-08-16

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