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Zinyemba, Tatenda; Pavlova, Milena; Groot, Wim – Education Economics, 2021
We examine the effects of HIV-infection on school attendance in Zimbabwe using recent nationally representative data of 11,673 children aged 6-18 years. We employ a non-linear multivariate decomposition approach to examine how HIV affects gender gaps in school attendance. We find gaps in school attendance between HIV-positive boys and girls and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Children, Adolescents
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Groot, Wim; Brink, Henriette Maasen van den – Education Economics, 1997
Estimates the rates of return to overeducation in the United Kingdom, using the 1991 British Household Panel Survey. Describes three approaches to analyzing skill utilization and their returns. Analyzes characteristics of the overeducated and undereducated work force. Overeducation is part of an adjustment in the labor market and tends to…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Higher Education