Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country

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 competin...

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Autor principal: Jolliffe, Dean
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161198
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description 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.
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spelling CGSpace1611982025-11-06T07:02:40Z Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country Jolliffe, Dean education income households 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. 1997 2024-11-21T09:54:06Z 2024-11-21T09:54:06Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161198 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Jolliffe, Dean. 1997. Whose education matters in the determination of household income;evidence from a developing country. FCND Discussion Paper 39. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161198
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title Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country
title_full Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country
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title_full_unstemmed Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country
title_short Whose education matters in the determination of household income: evidence from a developing country
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