Monthly Archives: December 2013

How do African incomes compare to the rest of the world?

Posted on December 23, 2013 by

How poor are people in Sub-Saharan Africa compared to the rest of the World? International comparisons of GDP per capita do not provide an answer to this question because they ignore within-country inequality (i.e. every individual in a country is … Continue reading →

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A new way of measuring the different benefits of going to school

Posted on December 13, 2013 by

Designing effective schooling policies requires understanding what motivates school enrolment decisions. This partly explains why so many empirical studies have attempted to measure the wage benefits that individuals receive from an additional year of schooling (or the rate of return … Continue reading →

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