Do Natural Disasters Decrease the Gender Gap in Schooling?

Yoshito Takasaki

World Development, 2017, vol. 94, issue C, 75-89

Abstract: Rapidly decreasing gender gaps in schooling in some developing countries can be partly explained by a gendered division of child farm labor as a coping response to natural disasters. This paper makes a case for this conjecture by analyzing original household survey data from rural Fiji. Boys, not girls, contribute to farming only among cyclone victims with dwelling damage, independent of housing-aid receipt. Boys’ school enrollment is significantly lower than girls’ only among victims who did not receive aid early enough. Boys with no elder brother and an educated father are particularly vulnerable in their progression to higher level schools.

Keywords: gender gap in schooling; child labor; natural disaster; disaster aid; Pacific; Fiji (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.041

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