Long-Term Impact of Investments in Early Schooling – Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Subha Mani, John Hoddinott and John Strauss

Fordham Economics Discussion Paper Series from Fordham University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in a developing country context using enrollment status and relative grade attainment as short-run and long-run measures of schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal data set from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand function where the coefficient estimate on the lagged dependent variable captures the impact of all previous periods schooling inputs and resources. We find that this lagged dependent variable indicates a strong positive association between current and lagged schooling. Past history matters more for girls than boys and for children from higher income households compared to the poor.

Date: 2009
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