Tp. Schultz, INVESTMENTS IN THE SCHOOLING AND HEALTH OF WOMEN AND MEN - QUANTITIESAND RETURNS, The Journal of human resources, 28(4), 1993, pp. 694-734
Women's years of school enrollment and health, measured by longevity,
have increased by a greater amount than men's in this century in most
countries. Private and social returns to schooling and health are revi
ewed to explain these trends in women's human capital. Sample selectio
n bias caused by analyses of only wage earners does not appear to lowe
r women's private returns to schooling relative to men's. Social retur
ns to education, moreover, favor greater public investment in women th
an men, particularly in South and West Asia and Africa where school in
vestments in women are much less than in men.