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

Esther Delesalle

No 25789, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: I20 J24 O15 O22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lma
Note: DEV ED
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w25789.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25789

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w25789

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().