(english) In Madagascar, Orange introduced its mobile banking services in September 2010. Mobile-banking (m-banking) is a system that allows users to conduct a number of financial transactions through a mobile phone. The existing body of literature suggests that the use of m-banking services may...

(english) Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital...

In this paper, we estimate returns to education. We develop the Mincer model [1974] which assumes that revenues only depend on the level of education and professional experience. We add the type of education (public or private) besides other explicative variables, and we correct the selection...

The authors provide various estimates of the government net capital stocks for a panel of 26 developing countries over the period 1970-2001. Two kinds of internationally comparable series of public capital stocks are presented. The first estimates are based on the standard perpetual inventory...

Comparing the returns of public and private education supposes to deal with the integration in the labour market because the first job gives a minimal experience. Combined with the educational attainment, it will ensure a real efficiency of the participation to the productive system. In the...

This article analyses the returns of education as defined by Mincer’s model (1974), in the malagasy case. Selection bias in the labour market and endogeneity bias of education are corrected for. Moreover, the type of education is taken into account. Indeed, this variable is suspected to play a...

Cette contribution à l'édition 2012 du "Ceriscope" propose une visite guidée simple des principaux concepts et des principaux axes de la recherche économique sur les liens entre éducation et inégalités. Elle est centrée principalement sur l'expérience des pays en développement et...