Returns To Schooling In Egypt
This project aims to estimate the causal effect of education on earnings for Egypt. In this study, we use the reduction in the duration of primary school from six to five years in 1988 as an instrumental variable for education in the identification of the wage returns to schooling. The substantial change in the completed years of schooling resulting from the reform suggests that we have a strong instrument.
Meltem Dayioglu Tayfur
Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Murat Kirdar
Professor of Economics, Boğaziçi University
Abdurrahman Aydemir
Full Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University
Ragui Assaad
Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, University of Minnesota