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| Autor/inn/en | Liddell, Christine; Barrett, Louise; Henzi, Peter |
|---|---|
| Titel | Parental investment in schooling. Evidence from a subsistence farming community in South Africa, |
| Quelle | In: International journal of psychology, 38 (2003) 1, S. 54-63Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
| Beigaben | Literaturangaben 29; Tabellen 5 |
| Sprache | englisch; englische Zusammenfassung; französische Zusammenfassung; spanische Zusammenfassung |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0020-7594 |
| Schlagwörter | Empirische Untersuchung; Familiengröße; Geschwister; Eltern; Schulbesuch; Bildungsinvestition; Finanzierung; Investition; Südafrika (Staat) |
| Abstract | Interviews were carried out amongst a cohort of 488 parents who lived as subsistence farmers in a remote and very poorly resourced region of South Africa. The majority of respondents had invested heavily in the education of their children, contrary to what might have been predicted from large family sizes and the economic and ecological pressures that families faced. ... Relatively wide birth spacing may have made the financial and opportunity costs of schooling more managable. This speculation is given some support by two findings: first, that the number of grades of schooling children complete before leaving increases significantly as birth spacing increases; second, that children who are still in school progress more rapidly as birth interval increases. Greater opportunities for the schooling of sons ( made possible by low rates of migrant labour in the community), coupled with high opportunity costs associated with the schooling of daughters, made it likely that sons would be educated to a higher level than daughters. However, there was consistent evidence for gender equality in schooling patterns. ... The investment strategy as a whole could be interpreted as "bet-hedging" under conditions where events outside parental control prevented them from targeting investments to children who could be readily identified as having favourable educational and employment prospects. (DIPF/Orig.) |
| Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
| Update | 2004_(CD) |
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