Long-term impact of investments in early schooling — Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Subha Mani, John Hoddinott and John Strauss

Journal of Development Economics, 2012, vol. 99, issue 2, 292-299

Abstract: We examine the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal data set from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand function where the coefficient estimate on the lagged dependent variable captures the impact of all previous period schooling inputs and resources. We find that a child who is enrolled in the prior period is 33 percentage points more likely to be enrolled currently. These lagged effects are stronger for girls and for children from higher income households.

Keywords: Schooling; Path dependence; Panel data; Dynamic model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.03.002

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