Human capital formation within families: a study in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka

Chandrakumara, D.P.S.

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“…Number of studies show that the history of snakebite was associated with CKDu (Nanayakkara et al 2014;Wanigasuriya 2007). Quite a large number of analytical studies reveal that the source of drinking water as a potential risk factor and, among them, a number of studies highlighted that drinking well water as a risk factor (Wanigasuriya et al, 2007;Wanigasuriya et al, 2011;Chandrakumara et al, 2013;Jayasumana et al, 2015;Siriwardhana et al, 2018). Farmer occupation and use of agrochemicals was identified as one of the main risk factors (Jayasumana et al, 2015).…”

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“…The contradictory arguments with regard to uncertain origin of CKDu has led further confusion among the affected communities. However, quite a few studies from social science perspective have been attempted to explore whether contextual factors such as experience of structural violence associated with resettlement programmes implemented by the government, and political economy of chemically-intensive agriculture are associated or not with CKDu (de Silva et al,2017;Bandarage, 2013). Besides the etiology of CKDu, available literature reveals that the evidence is inadequate to elaborate adverse consequences generated by-the two decades-old health hazard on patients, their families and the affected communities.…”

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Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology on Families of Patients and Their Coping Behaviour in Two Farming Communities in Sri Lanka

Liyanage

2019

Jnl. Soc. Sci. Hum. Rev

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Present paper analyses disease burden of two decades-old CKDu on patients' family, their coping strategies and the repercussions of those strategies. CKDu literature in Sri Lanka discloses that there is quite a large number of studies which attempted to determine unknown etiology of the disease. Findings of those studies reveal that no concrete conclusions with regard to the etiology of CKD, instead a number of hypothesis were developed with contradictory arguments. Since there is no sufficient knowledge to comprehend the impact of growing health hazard on affected people, an empirical study was carried out with the purpose of exploring disease burden of CKDu on patients and their families. Medawachchiya and Padaviya DS Divisions were selected to assess impact of longstanding disease as it was initially identified in these two locations in the late 1990s. Mixed-method approach was adopted in the study and the findings reveal that majority of patients were diagnosed as CKDu at acute stage and they were at productive age in their lifespan. Majority of patients were reported their identity as sick/elderly and their family has to bear a heavy burden of CKDu. Both formal and informal social support systems were insufficient for affected communities. Family as the most significant entity attempts to minimize psychosocial and economic burden of CKDu while bearing low productivity of ill-member due to illness, by allocating its resources, both human and material, to manage the ill-health and the emotional and social cost of illness on family. Patients' family adopts both problem-solving and emotional-focused coping strategies to combat the crisis situation that leads adverse effects on the wellbeing of family members. Findings suggest that patients' family demands positive coping options including more information with regard to illness, educating them to properly manage the illness, access to professional psychosocial counseling and essential support services. In conclusion, the paper highlights number of issues that policy makers, planers and service providers need to take into consideration in order to mitigate adverse effects of emerging health hazard and to improve wellbeing of the family of patients.

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Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology on Families of Patients and Their Coping Behaviour in Two Farming Communities in Sri Lanka

Liyanage

2019

Jnl. Soc. Sci. Hum. Rev

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“…Formal education transforms human beings into valuable human capital, and all other capacitybuilding activities such as technical or vocational training and non-formal training play a crucial role in that process. The human capital that increases labour productivity improves people's living standards (Chandrakumara, 2012a(Chandrakumara, , 2012bAakvik, Salvanes and Vaage, 2005;Schultz, 1961). Moreover, the developing countries' strategy is knowledge-based development, which can be achieved through the proper provision of education and training.…”

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Gender Equality in Education in Sri Lanka

Withanage

Chandrakumara

2021

Sri Lanka Jnl Econ. Res.

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Gender equality in education is an issue of global concern since it equalizes the formation of human capital and labour productivity between males and females. Hence, a gender equality analysis on education is essential to understand the situation and necessary policy interventions.This paper aims to investigate how equally education and training are distributed between males and females in Sri Lanka. The study is mainly based on institutional data obtained from the Department of Education, University Grants Commission, and the Department of Census and Statistics. Descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of quantitative data. Results show that the country has achieved gender equality education in many aspects. However, it reveals that student enrolments in grade one in National in schools, engineering and technology study programmes in universities, vocational and non-formal training courses under technical, vocational, and non-formal education are male-biased. The enrolments in bio-science centred streams in universities, by contrast, are femalebiased.The findings highlighted the need for policy intervention in minimizing gender inequality in Grade one admissions in National schools, enrolments in engineering, technology, and bio-science centred study programs, and vocational and non-formal training courses.

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A Canonical Analysis on the Relationship between Financial Risk Tolerance and Household Education Investment in Sri Lanka

Heenkenda

Chandrakumara

2015

IJIED

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This paper is aimed at examining the relationship between risk tolerance behaviour and the education investment of families in different social sectors, i.e. urban, rural, and estate, in Sri Lanka. At the initial step, the study used Binary Logistic Regression for identifying the significant variables for financial risk tolerance and for household investment on education. Having identified the two sets of variables for each domain, the second step was to apply the Canonical Analysis in order to examine the association between risk tolerance behaviour and education investment. The data for the study was obtained from a sample survey conducted in six Divisional Secretariat Divisions (DSDs) of three districts in Sri Lanka. The sample was selected considering the social sectors as strata, using multi-stage sampling technique joined with cluster sampling. The study found that ‘social sector’ and ‘education of household head’ were the main contributors to ‘household investment on education’. It revealed that when the ‘social sector’ changes from urban to rural and rural to estate there is a tendency of households to decrease the share of expenditure on education. However, the ‘education level of the household head’ had s significant positive impact for the investment in education. It also found that ‘income quartile, decision maker’, ‘income diversification’, and ‘financial literacy’ positively contributed to ‘risk tolerance behaviour’. However, the findings show that financial risk tolerance decreases with the distance of households to a financial institute. The canonical relationship shows a negative association between ‘income quartile’ and the ‘social sector’ and the ‘income quartile’ improves with the change of the ‘social sector’ from estate to rural and rural to urban. It also revealed that ‘income quartile’ was positively associated with the ‘education of the household head’. A primary conclusion can be arrived at that income and spatial related attributes are crucial in determining the impact of risk tolerance in household education investment. In addition, the study revealed that risk tolerance and, in turn, the tendency to invest in education increases with the change of gender from female to male. Therefore, it suggests that gender related attributes are also important in the financial risk tolerance and education investment.

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Human capital formation within families: a study in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology on Families of Patients and Their Coping Behaviour in Two Farming Communities in Sri Lanka

Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology on Families of Patients and Their Coping Behaviour in Two Farming Communities in Sri Lanka

Gender Equality in Education in Sri Lanka

A Canonical Analysis on the Relationship between Financial Risk Tolerance and Household Education Investment in Sri Lanka

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