Working-Age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya

Takashi Yamano () and Thomas S. Jayne ()

No KE-TEGEMEO-WP-11, International Development Collaborative Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper focuses on the impact of working-age adult mortality on child primary school attendance. A major difficulty in measuring the impact of adult mortality, especially mortality attributable to AIDS, is that it is caused by behavioral choices rather than by random events. Individuals and households incurring adult mortality are more likely to display certain characteristics. If prime-age mortality remains correlated with individual and household characteristics such as social status, wealth, and mobility–which are also important determinants of school enrollment–failure to control for these characteristics may generate biased estimates of the impact of adult mortality on school attendance.

Keywords: food security; food policy; HIV/AIDS; education; Kenya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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