Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country. The effects of parental education, income, and household structure.

Autor/inn/en	Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.
Titel	Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country. The effects of parental education, income, and household structure.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 19 (2000) 1, S. 63-87Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 43; Tabellen 7; Grafiken 1
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(99)00029-1
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungschance; Bildungsniveau; Junge; Familie; Mädchenbildung; Eltern; Schule; Schulbesuch; Einkommen; Abbruch; Mädchen; Guinea
Abstract	In this paper we investigate gender differences in the determinants of several schooling indicators - grade attainment, current enrollment, and withdrawal from school - in a poor urban environment in West Africa. ... lncreases in household income lead to greater investments in girls' schooling but have no significant impact on schooling of boys. lmprovements in father's education raises the schooling of both sons and daughters (favoring the latter) but mother's education has significant impact only on daughters' schooling; these estimates are suggestive of differences in maternal and paternal preferences for schooling daughters relative to sons. Domestic responsibilities, represented for example by the number of very young siblings, impinge strongly on girls' education but not on boys'. (DIPF/orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)