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Title Food price inflation and children's schooling
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1765/18721
Date 2009
Author(s) Grimm, M.
Abstract I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school.* Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa should not neglect the demand side.
Subject(s) I21; O12; Q12; education; household income; inflation; aggregate shocks; Africa.
Language en
Publisher ISS - International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Type of publication Research Paper
Identifier Working Paper, No. 472; 0921-0210; RePEc:iss:wpaper:472
Repository Rotterdam - Erasmus University
Added to C-A: 2010-08-26;13:53:49