Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country: the effects of parental education, income, and household structure

What Can Tobit-Piecewise Regression Tell Us about the Determinants of Household Educational Debt?

“…4;2014 family members attending school whereas the household-income are significant negative effects on the educational debt. In common with much previous research, such as Glick and Sahn (2000), Maldonado and González-Vega (2008), Kazianga (2012), Sabates, Hossain, and Lewin (2013), Stair, Rephan, and Heberling (2006), Baum and Malley (2003), Laura and Seaks (2013) as well as Eckel et al (2007) (household) income has impacted dependent variables which include educational opportunities of dependents, educational investment along with the educational debt whereas for the "affluent" cluster, factors which have important effects on educational debt are household debt and followed by household size and household head's age.…”

“…Thus equity in education is affected by the financial differences of each household. The research of Glick and Sahn (2000) focused on poor urban environments in West Africa. Probit regression was employed to illustrate the relationship between household financial characteristics and the educational investment for schooling.…”

Do IT service centers promote school enrollment? Evidence from India

“…A number of papers have estimated the income elasticity of school enrollment in the developing world (Alderman et al, 2001;Glick and Sahn, 2000;Glewwe and Jacoby, 2004;Orazem and King, 2007); these estimates range from 0.25 to 1.25. In Online Appendix A we go through a detailed calculation of the impact of ITES centers on area level income; we estimate an effect of around 0.57%.…”

Rural–urban differences in parental spending on children's primary education in Malawi

“…Firstly, the survey does not record the parental characteristics of children who do not live with their parents, thus this restriction allows us to examine the impact of parental characteristics as discussed in section 4.2. Secondly, schooling decisions are cumulative in nature such that the circumstances in which a person was raised in as a child are more relevant than current ones (Glick and Sahn 2000). This restriction may potentially lead to a non random sample (i.e.…”

“…Household and government expenditure on education is both an end in itself and a means for achieving other goals of development, such as economic growth, poverty reduction, improved health status, greater equity and reduced fertility (Glewwe and Ilias 1996). The low level of human capital development in most African countries is considered an obstacle for economic growth as well as the alleviation of poverty (Glick and Sahn 2000).…”