Seminar Papers, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University
No 744:
Income Shocks and Gender Gaps in Education: Evidence from Uganda
Martina Björkman ()
Abstract: This paper uses exogenous variation in rainfall across
districts in Uganda to estimate the causal effects of household income
shocks to in children’s enrollment and cognitive skills conditional on
gender. I find negative income shocks to have large negative and highly
significant effects on female enrollment in primary schools and the effect
grows stronger for older girls. The effect on boys’ enrollment is smaller
and only marginally significant. Moreover, I find that a negative income
shock has an adverse effect on test scores in general and test scores of
female students in particular. The results imply that households respond to
income shocks by varying the quantity and quality of girls’ education while
boys are to a larger extent sheltered – a finding consistent with a model
where parents’ values of child labor differ across sexes.
Keywords: Rainfall; education; test scores; gender; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: D13; I21; O12; (follow links to similar papers)
51 pages, March 2, 2006
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