 The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programmes on Women's Labour Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in KenyaMichael Lokshin, Elena Glinskaya and Marito Garcia Journal of African Economies, 2004, vol. 13, issue 2, 240-276 Abstract: We analyse the effect of child care costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children 3--7 years of age, we model the participation of the mother in paid work, the participation of other household members in paid work, household demand for schooling for school-aged children and household demand for child care. We find that high costs of child care discourage households from using formal child care and reduce the level of mothers' participation in market work. The cost of child care and a mother's wage level influence school enrolment of older children. However, these two factors affect boys' and girls' schooling in different ways. An increase in the mother's wage increases school enrolment for boys, but decreases it for girls. Higher prices for child care have no significant effect on boys' schooling but significantly decrease girls' schooling. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press. Date: 2004 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:13:y:2004:i:2:p:240-276 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of African Economies is currently edited by Francis Teal More articles in Journal of African Economies from Centre for the Study of African Economies Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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