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Title:Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Authors:Weir, SharadaISNI
Knight, JohnISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Journal of African Economies
Volume:16
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:134-165
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:agricultural productivity
schooling
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
External link:https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/1/134.full.pdf
Abstract:Schooling has externality effects in agriculture when, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of their uneducated neighbours. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such benefits for rural areas of Ethiopia, where school enrolment is low and the private returns to education may not be apparent. Average and stochastic frontier production functions are estimated, including household and community education, as explanatory variables to measure the productivity and efficiency of farmers. In each case, internal and external returns to schooling are compared. The authors find substantial and significant externality benefits of education in increasing average production and shifting out the frontier. External benefits of schooling may be several times as high as internal benefits in this regard. However, they are unable to find evidence that technical efficiency is subject to externality effects. Their results suggest that adoption and diffusion of innovations that push out the frontier is the source of externalities to schooling. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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