Virtuous interactions in removing exclusion: The link between foreign market access and access to education

Leonardo Becchetti, Pierluigi Conzo Pierluigi Conzo and Fabio Pisani
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Pierluigi Conzo Pierluigi Conzo: University of Rome Tor Vergata
Fabio Pisani: University of Rome Tor Vergata

No 122, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic rice producers across the past 20 years. We find that the probability of school enrolment in families with more than two children is significantly affected by affiliation years. The finding is robust when dealing with endogeneity and heterogeneity issues in the estimate. The non-positive preaffiliation performance documents that our result is not affected by selection bias and that fair trade affiliation generates a significant break in the schooling decisions of affiliated households.

Keywords: child schooling; market access; fair trade. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O19 O22 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009

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