The Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania / Esther Delesalle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delesalle, Esther.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25789.

NBER working paper series no. w25789

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

The purpose of this article is to study the effect of education on labor market participation and household consumption in a rural environment. The Tanzanian Universal Primary Education (UPE) program, which provides variations in education across locations and over time, is used as a natural experiment. Exploiting these two exogenous variations to instrument education, I find that education increases household consumption, especially in agriculture and in nonfarm self-employment activities. I also provide evidence that education increases the probability of working in agriculture. These results, initially surprising, suggest that returns to education in agriculture are positive, provided that the skills taught at school are suitable for agriculture.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2019.