Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh

Basu, Kaushik; Narayan, Ambar; Ravallion, Martin

doi:10.1016/s0927-5371(01)00048-3

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“…On the other hand, Basu, Narayan and Ravallion (2002) find that the earnings of illiterate men are on average 15% higher if they come from a household endowed with at least one literate member while women's labor force participation tends to be lower in a literate household. Their Bangladesh sample is however restricted to nonfarm illiterate workers.…”

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“…Moreover, Basu, K. et al (2002) find stronger effect of literacy on the earnings of unmarried illiterate women, arguing that the latter has little bargaining power within the household despite the income they bring into the family. Unmarried illiterate women would precisely fully capture the externality since their shared income provides incentives for literate household members to share their literacy knowledge with them to the extent that the sharing does not reverse the household equilibrium balance of power.…”

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The Impact of Family Literacy on the Earnings of Illiterates: Evidence from Senegal

Sarr

2004

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The Impact of Family Literacy on the Earnings of Illiterates: Evidence from Senegal

Sarr

2004

SSRN Journal

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“…Since cultural factors in Indonesia often lead to the situation that the oldest person in the household will be considered the head, we follow Basu et al (2001) to take the highest educational level of an adult in working age, as the educational information most relevant for a household. This way we circumvent the problem that some of the household heads do not contribute to the income generating process of the household anymore.…”

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Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Klasen¹,

Priebe²,

Rudolf

2013

Agricultural Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. In this paper we investigate the factors affecting income levels, income growth, and poverty reduction in rural Indonesia following the crisis of 1997/98. We particularly investigate the relative roles of non-farm incomes, productivity improvements achieved via changes in crops versus improvements on the same crops, and demographic changes induced by the crisis on income dynamics in rural Indonesia. Using a unique household panel data set for Central Sulawesi that allows us to control for a large set of household and geographical characteristics, household fixed effects as well as endogeneity issues, we find that falling household size and the adoption and intensification of new cash crop varieties can explain a substantial part of the observed post-crisis developments. Moreover, we compare our results to cross-sectional data from SUSENAS, Indonesia's large scale national household survey. While the overall determinants of rural incomes are very similar across both data sets, we find that the importance of agricultural self-employed income seems to be higher in Central Sulawesi than in most other parts of Indonesia. Although several factors could explain these differences, lessons from our Central Sulawesi data suggests that unexploited potentials in the production of cash crops in other areas of Indonesia might contribute to these findings. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Liu [2007] found external effects of schooling on the personal income of other workers in cities in China. Basu, Narayan, and Ravallion [2002] found external effects of literacy on the personal income of illiterate family members in Bangladesh. Breton [2010a and2010b] presents evidence that there are external effects of human capital from schooling on income across countries at the national level.…”

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Does Investment in Schooling Raise National Income? Evidence from Cross-Country Studies

Breton

2011

SSRN Journal

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Is literacy shared within households? Theory and evidence for Bangladesh

Cited by 74 publications

References 15 publications

The Impact of Family Literacy on the Earnings of Illiterates: Evidence from Senegal

The Impact of Family Literacy on the Earnings of Illiterates: Evidence from Senegal

Cash crop choice and income dynamics in rural areas: evidence for post‐crisis Indonesia

Does Investment in Schooling Raise National Income? Evidence from Cross-Country Studies

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