Determinants of Household's Education and Healthcare Spending in Nigeria: Evidence from Survey Data

Ogundari, Kolawole; Abdulai, Awudu

doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12060

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“…The second of these goals is the achievement of universal primary education by 2015 to ensure that children around the world will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Achieving this objective is all the more important as education plays a key role in reducing poverty and inequality (Ogundari and Abdulai, ; Shimeles and Verdier‐Chouchane, ).…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Yogo¹

2017

African Development Review

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Since 2000, Official Development Assistance has played a crucial role in efforts related to the achievement of MDGs. This is especially the case in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) which is the world's largest recipient of foreign aid. This paper assesses the effectiveness of aid and its efficient use in achieving universal primary education in sub‐Saharan Africa. The impact of aid is assessed for a sample of 35 SSA countries over the decade 2000–10. The results suggest that higher aid to education significantly increases primary completion rate. This result is robust to the use of various methods of estimation, the inclusion of instrument to account for the endogeneity of aid and the set of control variables included in regressions. Our findings suggest that education aid can be used as a policy instrument to achieve the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) which is to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Yogo¹

2017

African Development Review

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“…Similarly, Tansel and Bircan (2006) suggest that urban households invest more in the schooling of their children than rural dwellers. Ogundari and Abdulai (2014) observe that relative to male-headed households, female-headed households tend to spend more on the education of household members and health-care services. From the above, while vast literature exists on the determinants of households' educational expenditures, not much attention has been devoted to the subject in Ghana.…”

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Household and Contextual Factors Influencing Payment of Education by Households in Ghana

Abbam

2018

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Using data from the sixth round of the Ghana Household Living Standards Survey, this paper examines issues relating to household educational expenditure with a view to deriving implications for policy direction. The key findings from the estimated Tobit model in this paper are as follows: First, household income has significant positive influence on household expenditure on education. Thus, increase in household income is associated with an increase in educational expenditure. Second, there was a negative significant relationship between household poverty and demand for education. Third, female headed household is a positive significant determinant of expenditure on education. Finally, contextual factors such as locality are very crucial in determining household educational expenditures. The paper recommends for equality of educational opportunity so that children from economically handicapped families and less endowed communities have the same playing field as their well-to-do counterparts. Further, policy strategies to improve income generating activities of households should be pursued and the design of schemes specifically to offer assistance for those who are economically vulnerable.

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“…Plusieurs travaux ont analysé la demande des divers biens et services tels que l'assurance (Zerriaa, Amiri, Noubbigh, & Naoui, 2017), les soins médicaux (Anyanwu, 2007), l'éducation (Diagne, 2005; Ogundari & Abdulai, 2014) etc. dans le contexte africain.…”

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Analyse de la consommation des biens culturels au Togo

Nyatefe

Okey

2020

African Development Review

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This paper analyses the determinants of consumption decision and household expenditure on cultural goods in Togo, based on survey data from the 2015 QUIBB Basic Well‐being Indicators. The determinants of consumption decision are empirically estimated from a probit model while the determinants of consumption expenditure on cultural goods are estimated from a Tobit model and the CLAD (Censored Lead Absolute Deviation) method. The results show that the decision to consume cultural goods is positively affected by the higher level of education and the place of residence but negatively affected by the size of the household. Likewise, households' consumption expenditure is significantly influenced by income, education level, place of residence, household size, and religion. However, estimation by the CLAD method shows that the magnitude of the effect of these factors differs from one quantile to another. Furthermore, our results highlight a U‐shaped relationship between cultural spending and income. Taking these factors into account can help revive the cultural sector in Togo.

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Determinants of Household's Education and Healthcare Spending in Nigeria: Evidence from Survey Data

Cited by 59 publications

References 33 publications

Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in the Education Sector in Africa: The Case of Primary Education

Household and Contextual Factors Influencing Payment of Education by Households in Ghana

Analyse de la consommation des biens culturels au Togo

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