The determinants of schooling investments of rural Filipino households, 1985-2002

Jonna Estudillo, Yasuyuki Sawada and Keijiro Otsuka ()

Philippine Review of Economics, 2004, vol. 41, issue 1, 1-29

Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the demand-side factors affecting the schooling progression of Filipino children of school age, using household panel data collected over a span of 17 years. The following patterns emerge: (1) daughters complete more years of schooling than sons; (2) parental pro-daughter preferences become stronger when the children reach tertiary school age; (3) household permanent income significantly and positively affects schooling progression and its effect is far greater than that of transitory income; and (4) the effect of transitory income does not appear to be statistically significant. Our results are consistent with the theoretical implications of the educational investments of credit-constrained households.

Keywords: gender; household income; child schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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