To attend or not to attend: Examining the relationship between food hardship, school attendance and education expenditure

Edward Martey, Prince M. Etwire and David Atinga

International Journal of Educational Development, 2021, vol. 80, issue C

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between food hardship, school attendance, and education expenditure using nationally representative data from a survey of 14,009 households in Ghana. After controlling for household, and geographical characteristics and using a standard instrumental variable approach to control for unobservable characteristics, we find a statistically significant negative relationship between food hardship and the number of children attending secondary, private, public, technical and vocational school, and expenditure on education. A differential analysis based on welfare stratification indicates a statistically significant positive relationship between food hardship and male children attending school, and the number of children attending private school for those in high-income households.

Keywords: Food hardship; School attendance; Education expenditure; Instrumental variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C36 I20 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102304

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