Long-term impact of investments in early schooling - Empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mani, Subha; Hoddinott, John; Strauss, John
• 署名单位: Fordham University; University of Southern California
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.03.002
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 292-299
• 关键词: Schooling; Path dependence; panel data; dynamic model

摘要

We examine the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes 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 period schooling inputs and resources. We find that a child who is enrolled in the prior period is 33 percentage points more likely to be enrolled currently. These lagged effects are stronger for girls and for children from higher income households. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.