Whose Education Matters in the Determination of Household Income? Evidence from a Developing Country*
By Dean Jolliffe. Economic development and cultural change, 2002
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This paper aims to answer how best to model education attainment, which is an individual-level variable, in household-level income functions. The accepted practice in the literature is to use the education level of the household head. This paper compares the head-of-household model to three competing models and concludes that the maximum or average level of education in the household is a better explanatory variable of household income. Least absolute deviations (LAD) estimators and censored least absolute deviations (CLAD) estimators are used to predict income. Standard errors, which are robust to violations of homoscedasticity and independence, are generated by a boot-strap method that replicates the two-stage sample design.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science
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- Linkages between Land Management, Land Degradation, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Uganda (2008, background): “Since education of all household members may matter, not only the education of the household head (Joliffe 1997), and since there may be differences in impacts of female versus male education on agricultural activities (Pender et al.”