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Table 2

Modified human capital model-regional returns to education in Zambia - (dependent variable = log of wage)

Variable	Urban regions (n = 2,103)		Peri-urban regions (n = 745)		Rural regions (n = 539)
Variable	Coef	SD	Coef	SD	Coef	SD
Secondary	0.596***	0.083	0.519***	0.119	0.422	0.357
Tertiary	1.598***	0.105	1.379***	0.159	−0.454	0.478
Age	0.007*	0.003	0.025***	0.005	0.0169	0.014
Experience	0.072***	0.01	0.024	0.02	−0.011	0.044
Gender dummy	−0.042	0.069	0.274*	0.11	0.317	0.287
Bad health	−0.05563	0.251	−0.215	0.239	−0.295	0.518
Worse health	0.152	0.485	0.205	0.457	−0.5931	0.571
Secondary*Bad health	0.223	0.295	0.059	0.311	0.124	0.656
Secondary*Worse health	−0.011	0.515	0.095	0.493	0.074	0.795
Tertiary*Bad health	0.202	0.326	0.382	0.357	2.009**	0.725
Tertiary*Worse health	−1.103*	0.556	−0.191	0.539	3.132*	1.256
Married	−0.07	0.055	−0.232*	0.093	−0.179	0.238
Hours	0.001**	0.001	0.005***	0.001	0.005***	0.002
Child care	0.088	0.071	−0.036	0.088	0.379	0.263
Union	0.643***	0.073	1.251***	0.118	1.438***	0.353
Head of house	0.229**	0.071	0.416***	0.121	0.413	0.293
Experience2	−0.001***	0.0003	−0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
Constant	5.539***	0.158	4.417***	0.216	3.367***	0.566

Variable	Urban regions(n = 2,103)		Peri-urban regions (n = 745)		Rural regions(n = 539)
Variable	Coef	SD	Coef	SD	Coef	SD
Secondary	0.596***	0.083	0.519***	0.119	0.422	0.357
Tertiary	1.598***	0.105	1.379***	0.159	−0.454	0.478
Age	0.007*	0.003	0.025***	0.005	0.0169	0.014
Experience	0.072***	0.01	0.024	0.02	−0.011	0.044
Gender dummy	−0.042	0.069	0.274*	0.11	0.317	0.287
Bad health	−0.05563	0.251	−0.215	0.239	−0.295	0.518
Worse health	0.152	0.485	0.205	0.457	−0.5931	0.571
Secondary*Bad health	0.223	0.295	0.059	0.311	0.124	0.656
Secondary*Worse health	−0.011	0.515	0.095	0.493	0.074	0.795
Tertiary*Bad health	0.202	0.326	0.382	0.357	2.009**	0.725
Tertiary*Worse health	−1.103*	0.556	−0.191	0.539	3.132*	1.256
Married	−0.07	0.055	−0.232*	0.093	−0.179	0.238
Hours	0.001**	0.001	0.005***	0.001	0.005***	0.002
Child care	0.088	0.071	−0.036	0.088	0.379	0.263
Union	0.643***	0.073	1.251***	0.118	1.438***	0.353
Head of house	0.229**	0.071	0.416***	0.121	0.413	0.293
Experience2	−0.001***	0.0003	−0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001
Constant	5.539***	0.158	4.417***	0.216	3.367***	0.566

Note(s): *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001

Source(s): Authors’ own work