The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study

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I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d’Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of educational expansion on the growth of household incomes, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and labour demand. If returns to education remain constant and the labour market segmented, the effects will be very modest.

Object Details

• ISBN: 9291906190
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Research Paper ; No. 2004/32

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Statistical Simulation Methods: General ; Household Behavior: General ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
• Subject: education policy ; human capital ; inequality ; Kuznets curve ; microsimulation ; poverty ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsertrag ; Elfenbeinküste ; Verteilungswirkung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Grimm, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63600
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET