Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri

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“…Our findings are broadly consistent with the recent literature on school participation in India (see, for example, Dostie and Jayaraman, 2006;Kambhampati, 2009). Starting with child level covariates, we find that the child's age has a significant quadratic effect and males have a higher probability of studying.…”

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“…As documented by several time use surveys for developing countries, women have to decide, more often than men, how to distribute their time among child care, domestic work, work for a family business and/or outside work activities (Budlener, 2008). 4 While economists have studied separately children's schooling (see, for example, Glewwe, 2002;Dostie and Jayaraman, 2006;Ota and Moffatt, 2007) and female employment (see, for example, Mathur, 1994;Mammen and Paxson, 2000;Olsen and Mehta, 2006;Bhalotra and UmanaAponte, 2010) in developing countries, a few studies address the potential nexus between children's schooling and women's earnings or economic autonomy (see, for example, Kambhampati, 2009). Although there is some concern on the social benefits deriving from female work on children's schooling -a mother staying home to teach her children may yield a greater social return in terms of the growth of human capital than if she goes to work (Behrman and Rosenzweig, 2002;Behrman et al, 1999) -it is hard to disagree on the empowering function of employment in increasing women's ability to make decisions about personal and household conditions.…”

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Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India

2013

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This paper studies the relationship between mothers' employment and children's schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers' employment and their children's schooling is negative. Women in poorer households are more likely to work but, given the negative correlation, their additional income does not seem sufficient to enable children's school attendance. A sensitivity analysis on wealth deciles shows that this negative relationship disappears in urban areas and becomes weaker in rural areas at the top wealth deciles. JEL Classification: J13; J22; O15; O18.

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Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India

2013

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“…As mentioned before the effect of FDI on school enrollment in Nigeria hasn't been studied before. However, there are findings those show that economic factors are among the major determinants of school enrollment (Dostie & Jayaraman, 2006). So, we expect a positive relationship between FDI and school enrollment.…”

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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Human Development Index in Nigeria

Gökmenoğlu¹,

Apinran²,

Taşpınar³

2018

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Economic growth is a necessary condition for human progress, but not sufficient in itself to guarantee it; therefore, other dimensions and determinants of human development must be investigated by researchers. This paper explores the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the human development index (HDI) in Nigeria for the period of 1972-2013. Johansen cointegration test results reveal a long-term relationship between FDI and human development indices (e.g., school enrollment, life expectancy at birth, and gross national income). Toda-Yamamoto test results show long-run bidirectional causality between FDI and life expectancy at birth. There is also unidirectional causality from FDI to gross national income. These results indicate that FDI has a significant impact on the HDI in Nigeria during the sample period. The striking message our empirical findings conveys is that the effect of FDI on the HDI is a complicated issue, so to obtain optimum results policy-makers should be aware of and take into account the pros and cons of FDI inflows on several aspects of human development.

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“…Islamic religion is found to discourage school enrolment in Nigeria (Lincove, 2009) but it is found insignificantly associated with enrolment in India (Dostie and Jayaraman, 2006). Longer the distance to schools, it is found to act as the deterrent for school enrolment (Dostie and Jayaraman, 2006;Guimbert et al, 2008;Lincove, 2009).…”

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“…Longer the distance to schools, it is found to act as the deterrent for school enrolment (Dostie and Jayaraman, 2006;Guimbert et al, 2008;Lincove, 2009). In most of the studies, urban households are found to have higher probability in enrolling their children into schools (Zimmerman, 2001;Tansel, 2002).…”

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Determinants of School Enrolment in Bhutan: Does Income Matter to Poor?

Nidup

2016

Asian Journal of Economic Modelling

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Household income is a significant determinant in explaining school enrolment in many of the previous studies. Contribution/ OriginalityThis study is one of very few studies that have investigated the implications of income on poor and rich households. The paper's primary contribution is finding that income is very pertinent for poor households indicating that poor are resource constrained to send their children to school.

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Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages

Cited by 64 publications

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Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India

Mothers’ Employment and their Children’s Schooling: A Joint Multilevel Analysis for India

Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Human Development Index in Nigeria

Determinants of School Enrolment in Bhutan: Does Income Matter to Poor?

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