Returns to education in Sri Lanka : a pseudo-panel approach (English)

This study employs a pseudo-panel approach to estimate the returns to education among income earners in Sri Lanka. Pseudo-panel data are constructed from nine repeated cross-sections of Sri Lanka's labor force survey data from 1997-2008, for workers born during 1953-1974. The results show that for males, one extra year of education increases monthly earnings by about 5 percent using the pseudo panel estimation rather than 9 percent as in the ordinary...

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Aturupane,Harsha;

Salih Himaz,Fathima Rozana;
Document Date
2015/01/30
Document Type
Journal Article
Report Number
94658
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Sri Lanka,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2016/07/30
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Returns to education in Sri Lanka : a pseudo-panel approach
Keywords
return to education

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Aturupane,Harsha; Salih Himaz,Fathima Rozana.

Returns to education in Sri Lanka : a pseudo-panel approach (English). Author accepted manuscript Washington, DC : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985881528466893383

Returns to education in Sri Lanka : a pseudo-panel approach (English)

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