The impact of orphanhood on education attendance: evidence from Zimbabwe

Wei Ha, Peter Salama and Stanley Gwavuya

International Journal of Educational Development, 2015, vol. 40, issue C, 59-70

Abstract: The development community has started to question the exclusive focus of social protection programmes on orphans and vulnerable children affected by AIDS in the context of widespread poverty and vulnerability in Africa. This paper, using 2009 Zimbabwe Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey data and multivariate regression analysis and simulations, shows that the impact of orphan-hood on children's access to education should be not underestimated. Specifically, the probability differential of dropping out of school, when comparing double-orphans and children with both their parents, is almost as large as the gap between a child from the fourth quintile and the poorest quintile.

Keywords: Orphans and vulnerable children; Social protection; Education and targeting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.11.020

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