Duration of pre-university education and labour market outcomes: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Ghana

Emmanuel Adu Boahen (), Kwadwo Opoku and Simone Schotte

No wp-2020-106, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on the causal effect of shortening the duration of pre-university education on long-term labour market outcomes in Ghana. We use the education reform of 1987 as a natural experiment, which reduced the years of education prior to university from 17 to 12 years. Our identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design, taking advantage of the situation that pre- and post-reform birth cohorts entered the labour market around the same time, thus facing similar conditions.

Keywords: Years of education; Labour market; Labour market outcomes; Regression discontinuity; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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