The impact of education in rural Ghana: examining household labor allocation and returns on and off the farm

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jolliffe, D
• 署名单位: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.02.002
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 287-314
• 关键词: Human capital; Ghana; Farm households; off-farm income; censored LAD regression; sample design effects

摘要

Most of the human capital literature pertaining to developing countries focuses on the returns to education in either farm work or wage work; few studies examine how education affects the allocation of time between these activities. This paper estimates the returns to education in farm and off-farm work, and consequently the role of education in determining the allocation of labor. The results from this study show that off-farm work has a much higher return to education than does farm work and suggest that this divergence in returns affects the allocation of labor in farm households between farm and off-farm work. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.