Children’s school participation and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi:

Grant, Monica J.

doi:10.4054/demres.2008.19.45

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“…The fact that disadvantage is attached to living with a sick household member, but not with a sick parent, may indicate that children are purposely being pulled out of school in order to become live-in caregivers for sick relatives, as has been suggested elsewhere (Young and Ansell, 2003;Ansell and Van Blerk, 2004). Alternatively, there is some suggestion that sick parents -anticipating their own death -may be more likely to invest in their children's education as a way to safeguard children's future welfare (Grant, 2008).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…South Africa, with an HIV prevalence of 21 per cent among teachers 25-34 years, is reporting similar gaps (Peltzer et al, 2005). Finally, researchers have suggested that parental perceptions of mortality risk (both their children's and their own) may influence decisions around education (see Fortson, 2007;Grant, 2008).…”

Section: What Evidence Relates To Expanding Assistance Beyond Orphans?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Educational Disparities in AIDS-affected Communities: Does Orphanhood Confer Unique Vulnerability?

Kidman

Hanley

Foster

et al. 2012

Journal of Development Studies

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: What Evidence Relates To Expanding Assistance Beyond Orphans?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Educational Disparities in AIDS-affected Communities: Does Orphanhood Confer Unique Vulnerability?

Kidman

Hanley

Foster

et al. 2012

Journal of Development Studies

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“…7 Qualitative interviews as well as quantitative analyses suggests that risk perceptions about HIV/AIDS factor into parental decisions about their children's education (Grant 2008;Castro, Behrman, and Kohler 2015).…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi

Baranov

Kohler

2018

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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In the past decade, antiretroviral therapy (ART), a highly effective drug treatment that slows the progression of AIDS, has become widely available in sub-Saharan Africa. The medication is rapidly reversing the steep decline in life expectancy, which had fallen by 14 years in southern Africa, due to the AIDS epidemic (United Nations Population Division 2012). Economic models of life-cycle consumption suggest that life expectancy plays a role in decisions about savings, investment, * Baranov: University of Melbourne, 111 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia (email: victoria.baranov@ unimelb.edu.au); Kohler: University of Pennsylvania, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (email: hpkohler@pop.upenn.edu). We would like to thank anonymous referees for comments and suggestions that substantially improved the paper. This paper is a revised version of the first chapter of Baranov's dissertation at the University of Chicago. We also thank

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“…Sick parents make contingency plans for their children in preparation for their own impending mortality (Klaits 2010). For example, when Malawian parents know they are HIV positive, they are more likely to invest in their children’s future by enrolling them in school (Grant 2008). Across sub-Saharan Africa, children are at the forefront of AIDS-related decision making and conversations (Dahl 2009).…”

Section: Household Economics and Fosteringmentioning

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Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi

Bachan

2014

DemRes

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BACKGROUND While there is a rich literature on the practice of child fostering in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about how fostering impacts receiving households, as few studies consider household conditions both before and after fostering. Despite the fact that circumstances surrounding fostering vary, the literature’s key distinction of fostering is often drawn along the simple line of whether or not a household is fostering a child. This paper argues that anticipation of fostering responsibilities, in particular, is a useful dimension to distinguish fostering experiences for receiving households. OBJECTIVE This paper examines the relationship between receiving a foster child and subsequent changes in household wealth. Particular emphasis is placed on how these changes are conditioned by differing levels of anticipation of the fostering event. METHODS This study uses data from Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT), a longitudinal survey in Balaka, Malawi. Using data from 1754 TLT respondents, fixed effects pooled time-series models are estimated to assess whether and how receiving a foster child changes household wealth. RESULTS This paper demonstrates the heterogeneity of fostering experiences for receiving households. The results show that households that anticipate fostering responsibilities experience a greater increase in household wealth than both households that do not foster and those that are surprised by fostering. CONCLUSION Households that anticipate fostering responsibilities exhibit the greatest increase in household wealth. While fostering households that do not anticipate fostering responsibilities may not experience these gains, there is no evidence to indicate that such households are negatively impacted relative to households that do not foster. This finding suggests that additional childcare responsibilities may not be as detrimental to African households as some researchers have feared.

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Children’s school participation and HIV/AIDS in rural Malawi:

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

Educational Disparities in AIDS-affected Communities: Does Orphanhood Confer Unique Vulnerability?

Educational Disparities in AIDS-affected Communities: Does Orphanhood Confer Unique Vulnerability?

The Impact of AIDS Treatment on Savings and Human Capital Investment in Malawi

Anticipatory child fostering and household economic security in Malawi

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