Negative economic shocks and child schooling: Evidence from rural Malawi

Asma Hyder, Jere Behrman and Hans-Peter Kohler
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Development Southern Africa, 2015, vol. 32, issue 4, 458-476

Abstract: This study investigates the impacts of negative economic shocks on child schooling in households of rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Both individually-reported and community-level shocks are investigated. There is evidence that community-level shocks negatively impact the school enrolment of children. The point estimates suggest that this effect is larger when shocks and school enrolment are reported by men as compared with women. However, we cannot conclude with statistical confidence that the impact of idiosyncratic shocks is larger when reported by males than when reported by females. Similarly, although the point estimates suggest that the impact of community-level shocks on the school enrolment of children is larger than that of idiosyncratic shocks, we cannot conclude with statistical significance that the impacts of community-level and idiosyncratic shocks are different.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2015.1039707

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