Parental Aspirations and Schooling Investment: A Case of Rural Punjab, Pakistan

Anam Ashraf*

Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 26, issue 2, 129-152

Abstract: Human capital accumulation is closely related to development indicators, such as, socioeconomic status and workers’ productivity. The study aims to assess the impact of difference in aspirations between communities on schooling investment, instrumented by arrival of a factory. The study uses the dataset of 2010-11 of Privatization in Education Research Initiative (PERI), which comprises a sample of children aged 5–14 who are currently enrolled in schools. By applying the Instrumental Variable (IV) analysis, it is found that aspirations motivated by the external factors have a pronounced impact on investment in schooling. Moreover, impact on investment is channeled into expenditures rather than the private schools enrolment.

Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://aerc.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Paper-663-II-ANUM-ASHRAF2-1.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pje:journl:article16winiv

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics from Applied Economics Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Samina Khalil ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).