The Within-household Schooling Decision: A Study of Children in Rural Andhra Pradesh

Masako Ota and Peter Moffatt
Additional contact information
Masako Ota: University of East Anglia

No 152, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002 from Royal Economic Society

Abstract: Using microdata from a field survey of children in rural Andhra Pradesh, India, we estimate econometric models which aim to identify the key explanatory factors in the school versus out-of-school dichotomy. The approach differs from that of many other previous studies of child schooling, by focusing on the effects of sibling competition within the household. The value of this approach is confirmed by our findings that the schooling decision depends as much on the child's characteristics and position within the household, as on the circumstances of the household taken as a unit.

Date: 2002-08-29
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://repec.org/res2002/Ota.pdf full text

Related works:
Journal Article: The within-household schooling decision: a study of children in rural Andhra Pradesh (2007)
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:ecj:ac2002:152

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2002 from Royal Economic Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().