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Skills, Schooling, and Household Income in Ghana

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  • Jolliffe, Dean

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This article examines the impact of cognitive skills on the income of households in Ghana. It uses scores on mathematics and English tests to measure cognitive skills and estimates the returns to these skills based on farm profit, off-farm income, and total income. The article uses Powell's censored least absolute deviations and symmetrically trimmed least squares estimators to estimate farm and off-farm income. In contrast to Heckman's two-step or the Tobit estimator, Powell's estimators are consistent in the presence of heteroscedasticity and are robust to other violations of normality. The results show that cognitive skills have a positive effect on total and off-farm income but do not have a statistically significant effect on farm income. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

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Article provided by World Bank Group in its journal World Bank Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 12 (1998)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 81-104

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Handle: RePEc:oup:wbecrv:v:12:y:1998:i:1:p:81-104

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  9. Jolliffe, Dean, 1997. "Whose education matters in the determination of household income," FCND discussion papers 39, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  10. Jones, Patricia, 2001. "Are educated workers really more productive?," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(1), pages 57-79, February.
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  12. Francis Teal & Justin Sandefur & Neil Rankin, 2010. "Learning; Earning in Africa: Where are the Returns to Education High?," Economics Series Working Papers CSAE WPS/2010-02, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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  17. Kim Lehrer & Monazza Aslam, 2012. "Learning by Doing: Skills and Jobs in Urban Ghana," Economics Series Working Papers WPS/2012-15, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
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  19. Jolliffe, Dean, 2004. "The impact of education in rural Ghana: examining household labor allocation and returns on and off the farm," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 73(1), pages 287-314, February.

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