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Human Capital and Gender Wage Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from the Quantile Model with Smoothing Instrumental Variables

2023-06-20

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The objective of this study is to determine the conditional impact of human capital on gender wage inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. We use a sample of 30 countries between 1995 and 2015. Moreover, we consider the quantile model of instrumental variables of Chernozhukov and Hansen (2008); while using the Kaplan (2022) estimator. Next, human capital is measured by the Barro and Lee (2015) indicator, which determine...

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Literature Corpus work: 3aaa3b69-af70-51c5-b37a-d5b315936825
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3067368/v1

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