The paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education
between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with
pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate homogenous and
heterogeneous private returns to education for both worker types. The study finds similar
marginal returns to an additional year of schooling for both worker types. Further, the study
finds the returns to educational qualifications are convex for wage-employees and concave for
the self-employed. With regard to heterogeneous returns to education, we employ quantile
regression models and find returns to education decreasing with quantile for both worker types.