Volume 28, Number 4 (Fall) 1993
Vijverberg, Wim P. M. 1993. "Educational Investments and Returns for Women and Men in Cote D'Ivoire." Journal of Human Resources 28(4):933-974.
Do women in the labor market enjoy the same returns to their human capital investments as men do? Is the different treatment of women in the labor market a cause for the lower educational attainment so often observed among women in the Third World? This paper estimates wage and nonfarm self-employment earnings functions, corrected for selectivity bias based on a choice model of three regions and four employment modes. In Côte d'Ivoire. rates of return to education are high for both men and women, but men's wages exceed women's by a substantial margin for all but the most educated.
Wim P. Vijverberg is an associate professor of economics and political economy at the School of Sciences, the University of Texas at Dallas. This is a revised version of the paper presented at the Conference on Women's Human Capital and Development, Bellagio, Italy, May 18-22,1992. This paper has benefitted from comments of Angus Deaton, Claudia Goldin, participants of the Conference and of seminars at Tilburg University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Texas at Dallas, and an anonymous referee. The World bank does not accept responsibility for the views expressed herein, which are those of the author and should not be attributed to the World Bank or its affiliated organizations. Subject to approval of the World Bank, the data used in this article can be obtained beginning in June 1994 through June 1997 from the author at the following address: School of Social Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, P.O. Box 750688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688.
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