Off‐farm wage returns to education: Evidence from Lesotho

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• Graduate student and Professor of Agricultural Economics, respectively, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Financial assistance from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and the National University of Lesotho is gratefully acknowledged. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors or the Unversity of Natal. Comments by anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.
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