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Report on Uganda’s Returns to Schooling (Working Paper)
This report evaluates the returns to education for individuals and households for Uganda using microdata from two recent time periods, 2005/2006 and 2009/2010.
The data sources we used in the analysis of the wage, productivity and profit returns to education come from the Uganda National Household Survey 2005/06 (UNHS) and the Uganda National Panel Survey 2009/10 (UNPS). As with many other studies of wage returns to education, the starting point is the Mincer earnings equation which relates log earnings to an individual’s stock of human capital. In this approach, the conventional specification relates log earnings to education levels and to other determinants of earnings capacity.
Based upon this new analysis of data from the 2005/6 Uganda National Household Survey and the 2009/10 Uganda National Panel Survey 2009/10, the findings of this report are:
Overall, therefore, the report concludes that educational investments in Uganda deliver a significant return in the wage employment, the agricultural and the household enterprise sectors of the economy.