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The returns to vocational training and academic education: Evidence from Tanzania. Godius Kahyarara, University of Dar-es-Salaam Francis Teal, University of Oxford Download the Paper (PDF format) - October 1, 2007 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: In this paper we ask what can account for the continuing strong preference for academic education in Africa where the level of development is so low and there are few wage jobs and which form of educational investment, the academic or vocational, is most profitable. We argue that the answers to these questions are linked through the shape of the earnings function and the importance of firm effects. High levels of academic education have far higher returns than those available either from vocational or lower levels of academic. However at lower levels the vocational return can exceed the academic. SUGGESTED CITATION: Godius Kahyarara and Francis Teal, "The returns to vocational training and academic education: Evidence from Tanzania." (October 1, 2007). The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 287. http://www.bepress.com/csae/paper287