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Benefits and Costs of Public Schooling in Ghana

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  • Raju,Dhushyanth
  • Younger,Stephen D.

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This paper examines the monetary benefits and costs of the quantity of public schooling (thatis, years of schooling completed) in Ghana. The paper also examines the monetary benefits and costs of some aspects ofthe quality of public schooling, measured by the gains in achievement produced by selected interventions in publicschools. The analysis uses estimates of (i) labor-earnings returns to schooling and private spending on publicschooling, based on the latest national household sample survey data; (ii) government spending on public schooling,based on administrative information; (iii) impacts on test scores, and costs, of education interventions in publicschools, drawn from experimental studies; and (iv) conversions of impacts on test scores produced by educationinterventions to (future) labor earnings, all for Ghana. The results are a set of benefit-cost ratios in the style of theCopenhagen Consensus.

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  • Raju,Dhushyanth & Younger,Stephen D., 2022. "Benefits and Costs of Public Schooling in Ghana," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10017, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:10017
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