Boys and Girls? Changing Educational Opportunities in Thailand: The Effects of Siblings, Migration and Village Location

Sara Curran, Wendy Cadge, Anchalee Varangrat and Chang Chung
Additional contact information
Sara Curran: Princeton University
Wendy Cadge: Princeton University
Anchalee Varangrat: Mahidol University
Chang Chung: Princeton University

No 312, Working Papers from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research.

Abstract: This paper uses unique data to explore, at multiple levels, the correlates and causes of increasing educational opportunity and declining gender inequality in education in rural Thailand. We examine three correlates of educational opportunity that are of theoretical and empirical interest: sibling number, gender, migration and the relative location of primary and secondary schools. The relationship among these correlates and children?s educational opportunities is considered through the lens of the household economy literature in the context of social change and economic development in Thailand. The longitudinal data capture one period of rapid economic development in Thailand between 1984 and 1994 and include information about more than 5,000 households, their members, and the 51 communities in which they live.

Keywords: Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150906191102/http:// ... u/papers/opr0101.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:pri:opopre:opr0101.pdf

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bobray Bordelon ().