Fertility Decline and Child Schooling in Urban Settings of Burkina Faso

Bougma, Moussa; Legrand, Thomas; Kobiané, Jean‐François

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“…An additional child of the mother increases the intensity of child poverty by 0.022 and 0.025 in 2008 and 2014 respectively. These results are consistent with findings from previous studies including Angrist et al (2010), Black et al (2010), Dang and Rogers (2015) and Bougma et al (2015) that report such child quantity and quality trade-offs.…”

Section: Determinants Of Intensity Child Poverty In Ghanasupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Dang and Rogers (2015) for example shows that increased fertility reduces parental investments in human capital of children in Vietnam. Bougma et al (2015) also report similar negative effect of sibship size on school achievement in Burkina Faso. Further, in a study of India, Azam and Saing (2018) find a quality-quantity trade-off for some child outcomes.…”

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confidence: 55%

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Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ghana: Measurements, Determinants, and Inequalities

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Early childhood deprivations and inequalities have social and economic implications in adulthood and thus, their elimination is essential for child development. However, child-level estimates of poverty are rare in low income countries. Using data from two recent rounds of the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, we measure the extent and sources of childhood deprivations in Ghana and examine subgroup differentials in child poverty. In addition, we examine the child quality-quantity by estimating the causal relationship between number of children and child poverty. Finally, we assess the sources of rural-urban inequalities in child poverty. We find that despite declining incidence and intensity of multidimensional child poverty, significant subgroup differentials persist in Ghana. The findings of the paper reveal that living standards is the main contributor to multidimensional poverty in early childhood in Ghana. Our findings also confirm a significant causal relationship between child quality and quantity in Ghana, there exist a positive relationship between the number of children and the intensity of child poverty in Ghana. Finally, we find that rural-urban inequalities in child multidimensional poverty in Ghana are attributable to differences in observed maternal and household characteristics between rural and urban areas. The persistence of subgroup disparities in child poverty may be detrimental to achieving equitable and inclusive growth in the country. There is the need for considerations of equity, fairness and social justice in the distribution and development of social services and economic infrastructure to ensure even distribution of social and economic opportunities and promote social mobility across groups.

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Section: Determinants Of Intensity Child Poverty In Ghanasupporting

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Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ghana: Measurements, Determinants, and Inequalities

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“…A range of other instruments have been proposed, including infertility (Bougma et al ., 2015), miscarriage (Hotz et al ., ; Maralani, ; Miller, ) and distance to family planning (Dang and Rogers, ). The outcomes and empirical results related to these studies are displayed in Table .…”

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Children and Their Parents: A Review of Fertility and Causality

Clarke

2017

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Childbearing decisions are not made in isolation. They are taken in concert with decisions regarding work, marriage, health investments and stocks, as well as many other observable and nonobservable considerations. Drawing causal inferences regarding the effect of additional children on family outcomes is complicated by these endogenous factors. This paper lays out the issues involved in estimating the effect of additional child births on family outcomes, and the assumptions underlying the range of estimators and methodologies proposed in the economic literature. The common pitfalls of these estimators are discussed, as well as their potential to bias our interpretation of the effect additional births have on children and parents, both in the existing literature and in future work in the face of changing patterns of childbearing and child-rearing.

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“…A few researchers found a negative relationship between family size and educational attainment. These include Baez (2008), Rosenzweig and Zhang (2009), Bagger et al (2013), Dumas and Lefranc (2013), Bougma et al (2015) and Kugler and Kumar (2015). Blaabaek et al (2017) adopted a different approach and argue that from a causality centered point of view, previous research studies that had found a negative relationship between family size and educational attainment were invalid.…”

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Modeling the Contribution of Distance Education to Students’ Preparation for the Professions

Çavuş¹,

Kılınç²,

Yazıcı³

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Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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There is an increasing interest in predicting the contribution level of open and distance learning to students' career, in order to perceive the pathway for higher quality standards. For this purpose, Anadolu University Faculty of Open Education, which can be considered a leader in its field, to learners' professions and their career goals, organized a research project in which a questionnaire was conducted involving approximately 17,000 associate and undergraduate students to build a database of responses. The data was used to determine the contribution level of the open education programs. The five ordered-level contributions were recorded to a response variable. Demographical, educational and economic variables were successfully used in mapping the categorical responses using the ordinal logistic regression analysis method (OLR). The results, unlike other studies, indicate that there is a positive relationship between family size and the contribution level of distance education on students' preparation for the professions. In a novel way, the socioeconomic level of the students is considered in the OLR model as an economic factor. As a consequence, the students with moderate and higher socioeconomic levels demonstrated superior levels of contribution.

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Fertility Decline and Child Schooling in Urban Settings of Burkina Faso

Cited by 18 publications

References 56 publications

Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ghana: Measurements, Determinants, and Inequalities

Multidimensional Child Poverty in Ghana: Measurements, Determinants, and Inequalities

Children and Their Parents: A Review of Fertility and Causality

Modeling the Contribution of Distance Education to Students’ Preparation for the Professions

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