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The Economics of School Quality Investments in Developing Countries

An Empirical Study of Ghana

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Paul Glewwe

    1. The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies on the African Economies Series (SAES)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Analysing Investments in Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Measuring the Returns to Investments in Education: Overview and Critique

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 3-16

    3. A New Method for Analysing Government Investments in Education

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 17-37

  3. The Impact of Investments in School Quality on Cognitive Skills

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. A Method for Estimating the Determinants of Schooling Outcomes

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 41-99

    3. The Impact of Investments in School Quality on Cognitive Skills

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 100-166

  4. Cognitive Skills, Incomes and Rates of Return to School Quality Investments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Wages

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 169-205

    3. The Impact of Schooling and Cognitive Skills on Income from Non-Farm Self-Employment

      • Wim P. M. Vijverberg
      Pages 206-252

    4. The Impact of Cognitive Skills on Income from Farming

      • Dean Jolliffe
      Pages 253-291

  5. Cognitive Skills and Non-Economic Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. Child Health and Mothers’ Education in Ghana

      • Paul Glewwe, Jaikishan Desai
      Pages 295-326

    3. Fertility and Women’s Schooling in Ghana

      • Raylynn Oliver
      Pages 327-344

  6. Findings and Recommendations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345
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    2. Summary of Findings and Recommendations for Future Research

      • Paul Glewwe
      Pages 347-353

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 354-373
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About this book

This book presents a method to estimate the economic returns to investments in school quality. While economists have long had methods to estimate rates of return to additional years of schooling, until now there has been no method for analyzing returns to investments in school quality. This is regrettable, because many, if not most, government education policies focus on school quality. Empirical work using data from Ghana shows that investments in school quality have higher rates of return than investments in increased years in schooling. The bulk of the study is written by Paul Glewwe, with some coauthored and contributed pieces from his co-researchers Jaikishan Desai, Dean Jolliffe, Raylynn Oliver and Wim Vijverberg, who worked as research assistants on this project.

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  • The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

    Paul Glewwe

About the author

PAUL GLEWWE is a Senior Economist at the World Bank. He was previously at Pennsylvania State University and has published very widely in major journals.

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