Food Price Inflation and Children's Schooling

I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much larger than a simple OLS regression would suggest. Hence, policies to expand education in Sub-Saharan Africa, should not neglect the demand side.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Grimm, Michael
Institutions:	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)
Subject:	Education \| Household Income \| Inflation \| Aggregate Shocks \| Africa

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin. - ISSN 1619-4535.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 844 31 pages long
Classification:	I21 - Analysis of Education ; O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics