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.

Returns To Schooling In Egypt

Meltem Dayioglu Tayfur

Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Returns To Schooling In Egypt

Murat Kirdar

Professor of Economics, Boğaziçi University

Returns To Schooling In Egypt

Abdurrahman Aydemir

Full Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University

Returns To Schooling In Egypt

Ragui Assaad

Professor and Freeman Chair for International Economic Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota