Child Monetary Poverty and Multidimensional Deprivations: Why They Differ

Paola Balloon, John Cockburn, Setou Diarra and Sylvain Dessy

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Abstract: We analyze the causal effect of parental education on the potential mismatch between child monetary poverty and multidimensional deprivations. First, in a simple model of parental investment in child outcomes, we demonstrate that the misalignment between household monetary resources and parental education causes a mismatch. Indeed, a match between poverty and deprivation occurs whenever household consumption expenditure and parental education are correlated. Second, using micro-level data from Tanzania, we find that parental education has a negative effect on the probability that a monetarily non-poor child suffers some basic deprivations, and a positive effect on the likelihood that a monetarily poor child suffers no basic deprivations.

Keywords: Monetary child poverty; Child deprivations; Maternal education; Heckman selection model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J13 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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