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Education and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Ouganda

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Appleton, S.
Balihuta, A.

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Existing evidence on the impact of education on agricultural productivity is mixed, with estimates usually insignificant although sometimes large. Analysis of the first nationally representative household survey of Uganda gives an estimate of the impact of household primary schooling on crop production comparable to the developing country average.

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Paper provided by Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford in its series Working Papers Series with number 96-5.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: EDUCATION; PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; OUGANDA;

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I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
O10 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
O55 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General

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