Education participation in Sri Lanka—Why all are not in school

Arunatilake, Nisha

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2006.11.001

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“…It is proposed to Governmetn of Punjab to make availability of public sector schools near to particularly poor community households. Aruntilake also pointed out for Sri-Lanka that free education for all has failed to raise the literacy rate to 100 percent [12]. The availability and quality of pubic sector schools are necessarily required.…”

Section: Number Of Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Household Choice of Public Versus Private Schooling: A Case Study of Bahawalpur City

Khan

Raza²

2011

SSRN Journal

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Government of Punjab is committed to attain the universalization of school education by providing free education and even in a number of districts the free books and through the programs of food for education. The stipends on the subsidized schooling are also part of the policy by Government of Punjab. The rapid increase in enrolment in private schools reflects the partial failure of these schemes and making the target of universalization of school education difficult. The paper examines the household choice of private versus public sector schools as an outcome of child, household and school characteristics by using logit model. Data has been collected from Bahawalpur city through stratified sampling of clusters and random sampling of households. A survey of 627 households having at least one school-going child made the data available. The study found that income of the household, education of the parents, English as medium of instruction in school and distance of public school from the household enhance the preference of private schools. To universalize the school education more public sector schools are required near to the households. The adaptation of English as medium of instruction may increase the school enrolment.

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Section: Number Of Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Household Choice of Public Versus Private Schooling: A Case Study of Bahawalpur City

Khan

Raza²

2011

SSRN Journal

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“…Also, of children whose age is 17 years, only 39.9% are in schools. Considerably higher dropout rates are not merely because of their inability to continue formal education, but largely because of poverty, higher opportunity cost of education, unfavorable supply-side factors such as poor-quality educational infrastructure facilities available in Sri Lankan schools, and certain cultural factors (Arunatilake, 2006 andPallegedara, 2012). The similar trends of downwards endogeniety bias have been observed by Angrist and Krueger (1991), Card (1999), Land (1993, and Trostel et al (2002) in their studies on education-earning relations.…”

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confidence: 71%

Wage differentials in Sri Lanka: the case of a post-conflict country with a free education policy

Kumara

2015

IJEED

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This study analyses wage differentials in Sri Lanka by the individuals' educational attainment. The wage returns to education are estimated by using a combination of the techniques of ordinary least-square, two-stage least-square, sample-selection, and quantile regression on micro-data of the Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey-2013. Therefore, the estimates provided by this study are representative of the entire country and corrected for both the endogeniety and the sample-selection biases. The study concludes that education generates a positive impact on private earning. The results show that one additional year of schooling increases hourly wage rate by 9% approximately. Also, according to the results, the primary and secondary education reduces income inequality among people whereas the bachelor's-degree University education is a contributor to the income inequality. Further, the results relating to the additional controls reveal that the male, urban, and the public sector employees earn relatively higher wage returns.

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“…More generally, Z pi consists of the age, gender, and education level of the household head. We also include the employment status of the household head, as is done in Arunatilake (2006). The vector Z ci includes the child's age, gender, and ethnicity.…”

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“…According to the World Bank (2005), the majority of children who do not enrol in basic education are living in socio-economically disadvantaged circumstances either in rural areas or in low income urban neighbourhoods. As further evidence, Arunatilake (2006) explains that private spending on education is quite high in spite of large sums of government spending on in-kind transfer programmes aimed at children, including free text book provision, free uniforms, and transportation subsidies. As a result, poor families still face a difficult situation in sending their children to school.…”

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Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on School Attendance and Child Poverty: An Ex Ante Simulation for Sri Lanka

Kumara¹,

Pfau²

2011

Journal of Development Studies

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For countries assessing whether to implement a cash transfer programme, an exante evaluation is vital to assess its potential impacts. This study simulates the impact of alternative cash transfer programmes on school attendance and poverty among Sri Lankan children. We find that cash transfer programmes targeting poor children would be the most costeffective way to reduce child poverty and encourage school attendance. If means-testing is not feasible, then programmes targeting the children in households with at least three school-age children would provide a suitable second-best solution. Our findings suggest that even a limited programme budget can provide significant impacts.

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Education participation in Sri Lanka—Why all are not in school

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Household Choice of Public Versus Private Schooling: A Case Study of Bahawalpur City

Household Choice of Public Versus Private Schooling: A Case Study of Bahawalpur City

Wage differentials in Sri Lanka: the case of a post-conflict country with a free education policy

Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on School Attendance and Child Poverty: An Ex Ante Simulation for Sri Lanka

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