Richard Sabot

Biographic Data

ID1180679
NAMERichard Sabot
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMESabot
SIGNATURESABOT R
AFFILIATIONSWilliams College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS159
AUTHOR COUNT20
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX6

  • Human Capital Accumulation in Post Green Revolution Rural Pakistan: A Progress Report (The Distinguishedl Lecture)

    Open AccessRichard Sabot, Richard H Sabot Richard H SabotARTICLEThe Pakistan Development Review2022

    Two years ago at this conference I presented some preliminary results from a large micro-economic research project analysing the detenninants and consequences of human capital accumulation in rural Pakistan. At that time the entry, cleaning and evaluation of the data, generated by a specially designed rural household and school survey, had just been completed and the first phase of the econometric work programme had barely begun. Since then the r…

  • Migration And The Labor Market In Developing Countries

    Richard SabotBOOKMigration and the Labor Market in…2019

  • Improving quality versus increasing the quantity of schooling: Estimates of rates of return from rural Pakistan

    Open AccessJere R Behrman, David Ross et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2006Cited by: 7

  • Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Growth

    Nancy Birdsall, Thomas C Pinckney et al.CHAPTERResource Abundance and Economic…2004

    This chapter examines the role of human capital investment in lowering the growth of resource-abundant countries. It is shown that resource abundance leads to high initial levels of income inequality, making it difficult to generate a virtuous circle of human capital accumulation and equitable growth. However, this virtuous circle is achievable if governments can resist the temptation to ignore the quality of schooling and pursue a capital intens…

  • The Income Gap in Cognitive Skills in Rural Pakistan

    Harold Alderman, Jere R Behrman et al.ARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1997Cited by: 5

  • Inequality and Growth Reconsidered: Lessons from East Asia

    Nancy Birdsall, David Ross et al.ARTICLEThe World Bank Economic Review1995

    East Asian economies have experienced rapid growth over three decades, with relatively low levels of income inequality, and appear to have also achieved reductions in income inequality. We argue that policies that reduced poverty and income inequality, such as emphasizing high-quality basic education and augmenting labor demand, also stimulated growth. Closing two virtuous circles, rapid growth and reduced inequality led to higher demand for, and…

  • Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth

    Alan Gelb, J B Knight et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1992

    Journal Article Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 102, Issue 412, 1 May 1992, Page 633, …

  • Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth

    Alan Gelb, J B Knight et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1991Cited by: 31References: 9

    Journal Article Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth Get access A. Gelb, A. Gelb The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot International Food Policy Research Institute and Williams College Search fo…

  • Education, Work and Pay in East Africa

    Onesemus Aganze Awiria, Arthur Hazlewood et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Educational…1991

    Issues the economies, education and the labour-market source and presentation of the data demographic and educational characteristics of employees in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam educational attainment and the urban labour-market in Kenya who gets schooling in Kenya education and rural-urban links in Kenya educational attainment and the urban labour-market in Tanzania who gets schooling in Kenya educational attainment and the urban labour-market in …

  • Grade Inflation and Course Choice

    Open AccessRichard Sabot, John Wakeman-LinnARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…1991Cited by: 16References: 1

    A conflict exists between the incentives offered to students and the institutional goal of increased science and math education. Students make their course choices in response to a powerful set of incentives: grades. These incentives have been systematically distorted by the grade inflation of the past 25 years. As a consequence of inflation, many universities have split into high- and low-grading departments. Economics, along with Chemistry and …

  • Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression

    Open AccessJ B Knight, John Knight et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics1987Cited by: 4References: 7

  • Socioeconomic Background and the Returns to Schooling in Two Low-Income Economies

    Jane Armitage, Richard SabotARTICLEEconomica1987

    In the United Kingdom, the increment to income yielded by an additional year of schooling declines as the occupational status of the worker's father rises. In this note the relationship between family background and the returns to schooling is measured in Kenya and Tanzania. In contrast to the United Kingdom, a positive relationship is documented. Several explanations for this marked difference between a high-income economy and two low-income eco…

  • Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise

    J B Knight, John Knight et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1987Cited by: 3References: 1

    Journal Article Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise Get access J. B. Knight, J. B. Knight Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar R. H. Sabot R. H. Sabot Williams College, and Development Research Department, The World Bank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Vol…

  • The public/private wage differential in a poor urban economy

    Open AccessDavid L Lindauer, Richard Sabot et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics1983Cited by: 12References: 2

  • Labor market discrimination in a poor urban economy

    J B Knight, John Knight et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies1982

    Labor market discrimination by sex and by race in a poor urban economy is analyzed using a survey of manufacturing employees in Tanzania. There are large differences in mean wages by both sex and race. Using techniques previously applied to developed countries, it is found that, whereas the sex difference in mean wages can be explained mainly in terms of sex differences in personal characteristics, the race difference is mainly the result of wage…

  • Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania 1900-1971

    Joel Samoff, R H Sabot et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review1981Cited by: 5

  • Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania 1900-1971

    James D Graham, James Graham et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1981Cited by: 20

  • Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania, 1900-1971

    J Forbes Munro, Jenny Munro et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1981

  • Labour market performance in developing countries: A survey

    Open AccessA Berry, R H Sabot et al.ARTICLEWorld Development1978Cited by: 5References: 33

  • Employment, incomes and equality: A strategy for increasing productive employment in Kenya

    Open AccessRichard SabotARTICLEWorld Development1973Cited by: 51