EDUCATIONAL INVESTMENTS AND RETURNS FOR WOMEN AND MEN IN COTE-DIVOIRE

Do women in the labor market enjoy the same returns to their human cap ital investments as men do? Is the different treatment of women in the labor market a cause for the lower educational attainment so often ob served among women in the Third World? This paper estimates wage and n onfarm self-employment earnings functions, corrected for selectivity b ias based on a choice model of three regions and four employment modes . In Cote d'lvoire, rates of return to education are high for both men and women, but men's wages exceed women's by a substantial margin for all but the most educated.