Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Grimm, M.
Author-Name-Last: Grimm
Author-Name-First: Michael
Author-Person: pgr74
Title: Food price inflation and children's schooling
Abstract: 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.
Creation-Date: 2009-04-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18721/wp472.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:euriss
Classification-JEL: I21, O12, Q12
Keywords: Africa., aggregate shocks, education, household income, inflation
Handle: RePEc:ems:euriss:18721