Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Returns to Education in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study Cover

Returns to Education in South Africa: Evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study

Open Access
|Jun 2019

References

  1. Ashenfelter, Orley and Ceclia Rouse (1998), “Income, Schooling, and Ability: Evidence from a New Sample of Identical Twins,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113(1), 253-284.10.1162/003355398555577
  2. Biyase, Mduduzi and Talent Zwane (2015), “Does Education Pay in South Africa? Estimating Returns to Education Using Two Stage Least Squares Approach,” International Business & Econmics Research Journal, 14(6), 807-814.10.19030/iber.v14i6.9508
  3. Bound, John, David A. Jaeger, and Regina Baker (1993). “The Cure Can Be Worse than the Disease: A Cautionary Tale Regarding Instrumental Variables,” NBER Technical Working Paper No. 137.10.3386/t0137
  4. Bound, John, David A. Jaeger, and Regina Baker (1995), “Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variables is Weak,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90(430), 443-450.10.1080/01621459.1995.10476536
  5. Card, David (1995), “Earnings, Schooling and Ability Revisited,” Research in Labor Economics, 14:23-48.10.3386/w4832
  6. Card, David (1999) “The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings,” in Handbook of Labor Economics, Orley Ashenfelter and David Card eds.,Elsevier Press: Amsterdam, 1801-1863.10.1016/S1573-4463(99)03011-4
  7. Case, Anne and Motohiro Yogo (1999), “Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa,” NBER Working Paper No. 7399.10.3386/w7399
  8. Casale, Daniela and Dorrit Posel (2011), “English Language Proficiency and Earnings in a Developing Country: The Case of South Africa,” The Journal of Socio-Economics, 40(4), 385-393.10.1016/j.socec.2011.04.009
  9. Davenport, T.R.H. (1991), South Africa: A Modern History, 4th ed., London: MacMillan.10.1007/978-1-349-21422-8
  10. Fryer, David and Desire Vencatachellum (2005), “Returns to Education in South Africa: Evidence from the Machibisa Township,” African Development Review, 17(3), 513-535.10.1111/j.1017-6772.2006.00126.x
  11. Holmlund, Helena, Mikael Lindahl, and Erik Plug (2011), “The Causal Effect of Parent’s Schooling on Children’s Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods,” Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3), 615-651.10.1257/jel.49.3.615
  12. Haveman, Robert and Barbara Wolfe (1995), “The Determinants of Children Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings,” Journal of Economic Literature, 33(4), 1829-1878.
  13. Keswell, Malcom and Laura Poswell (2004), “Returns to Education in South Africa: A Retrospective Sensitivity Analysis of the Available Evidence,” South African Journal of Economics, 72(4), 834-860.10.1111/j.1813-6982.2004.tb00136.x
  14. Khalfani, Akil Kokayi and Tukufu Zuberi (2001), “Racial Classification and the Modern Census in South Africa, 1911-1996,” Race and Society, 4(2), 161-176.10.1016/S1090-9524(03)00007-X
  15. Kuepie, Mathias, Christophe Nordman, and Francois Roubaud (2009), “Education and Earnings in Urban West Africa,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 37(3), 491-515.10.1016/j.jce.2008.09.007
  16. Letseka, Moeketsi (2014), “The Illusion of Education in South Africa,” Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 116, 4864-4869.10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.1039
  17. Mincer, Jacob (1974), Schooling, Experience, and Earnings, National Bureau of Economic Research. Oreopoulos, Philip, Marianne Page, and Anne Huff Stevens (2006), “The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling,” Journal of Labor Economics, 24(4), 729-760.10.1086/506484
  18. Polachek, Solomon (2007), “Earnings over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and its Applications,” IZA working paper, No. 3181.10.2139/ssrn.1048301
  19. Posel, Deborah (2001), “Race as Common sense: Racial classification in Twentieth-Century South Africa,” African Studies Review, 44(2), 87-113.10.2307/525576
  20. Psacharopoulos, George (1994), “Returns to Investment in Education: A Global Update,” World Development, 22(9), 1325-1343.10.1016/0305-750X(94)90007-8
  21. Psacharopoulos, George and Harry Anthony Patrinos (2018), “Returns to Investment in Education: A Decennial Review of the Global Literature,” Education Economics, 26(5), 445-458.10.1080/09645292.2018.1484426
  22. Salisbury, Taylor (2016), “Education and inequality in South Africa: Returns to schooling in the postapartheid era,” International Journal of Educational Development, 46(1), 43-52.10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.07.004
  23. Schultz, T. Paul (2004), “Evidence of Returns to Schooling in Africa from Household Surveys: Monitoring and Restructuring the Market for Education,” Journal of African Economies, 13 Suppl. 2, 95-148.10.1093/jae/ejh044
  24. Staiger, Douglas and James H. Stock (1997), “Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments,” Econometrica, 65(3), 557-58610.2307/2171753
  25. Stock, James H. and Motohiro Yogo (2005), “Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression.” Ch. 5 in J.H. Stock and D.W.K. Andrews (eds), Identification and Inference for Econometric Models: Essays in Honor of Thomas J. Rothenberg, Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511614491.006
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2019-0009 | Journal eISSN: 1849-1162 | Journal ISSN: 1331-5609
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 12
Published on: Jun 13, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2019 Craig Depken, Chanda Chiseni, Ernest Ita, published by University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.