Rates of return of higher education in Honduras

Abstract

In this article it is estimated statistically rates of return to education in Honduras considering various levels of it, describes the equation multiple regression used for this purpose, while consider other estimates made by other authors.

The results of this evaluation have been calculated based on various sources household surveys for Multiple Purposes (ephpm) conducted by the National Statistics Institute Honduras (INE) for the respective years of study and analysis, these databases are made available to easy to use for treatment and handling through SPSS management program stored in micro data.

The main results reflect important results, namely one is primarily the level and/or degree of association between education variable for various levels and monetary income people and that the results estimates of rates of return of the system education show the same level are higher for primary education compared to rates secondary education and higher education level. This could be reflected in accounting systems eg national participation rates population with more academic standards in various economic activities in various sectors of the economy, and they reflect comparatively greater financial contributions to the country, reflected by half of GNP.