abstract: 'This paper uses the Tanzanian Universal Primary Education (UPE) program

  implemented between 1974 and 1978 to study the effect of education on

  household consumption and on labor market participation in a rural

  environment. Combining regional disparities of access to school with the

  timing of the program, I adopt a difference-in-difference approach. To

  estimate the returns to education for the entire population and not only

  for wage workers, I use a two-sample estimation approach to predict

  consumption for every household and find that education increases

  predicted consumption for household heads working in every sector. I

  also provide evidence that education increases the probability of

  working in agriculture for women. These results, at first surprising,

  suggest that education may influence the structural trans-formation and

  that returns to education are positive in agriculture, provided that

  skills taught at school are consistent with agriculture.

  (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Delesalle, E (Corresponding Author), UCLouvain, IRES LIDAM, 3 Pl, B-1348
  Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.

  Delesalle, E (Corresponding Author), UMR LEDa DIAL, 3 Pl, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve,
  Belgium.

  Delesalle, Esther, UCLouvain, IRES LIDAM, 3 Pl, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.

  Delesalle, Esther, UMR LEDa DIAL, 3 Pl, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium.'
article-number: '105345'
author: Delesalle, Esther
author-email: esther.delesalle@uclouvain.be
author_list:
- family: Delesalle
  given: Esther
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105345
earlyaccessdate: MAR 2021
eissn: 1873-5991
files: []
issn: 0305-750X
journal: WORLD DEVELOPMENT
keywords: 'Human capital investment; Returns to education; Schooling reforms;

  Tanzania'
keywords-plus: INFERENCE; POVERTY; ACCESS; IMPACT
language: English
month: JUN
number-of-cited-references: '41'
papis_id: edd6dc6ba00030903ee23b52e831f3bd
ref: Delesalle2021effectuniversal
times-cited: '5'
title: 'The effect of the Universal Primary Education program on consumption and on
  the employment sector: Evidence from Tanzania'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000641697900032
usage-count-last-180-days: '5'
usage-count-since-2013: '10'
volume: '142'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics
year: '2021'