To attend or not to attend: Examining the relationship between food hardship,school attendance and education expenditure |
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| Institution: | 1. Economics Section, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute. P.O. Box TL 52, Tamale, Ghana;2. Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States;3. University for Development Studies, Ghana;1. Centre for Educational and Social Studies, Mexico City, Mexico;2. The World Bank, 1818 H Street N.W., Washington DC 20433, USA;1. 167 Ferry Street, School of Social Work, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, N9A0C5, Canada;2. University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada;1. International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam;2. Institute of Theoretical and Applied Research, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Viet Nam |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the relationship between food hardship, school attendance, and education expenditure using nationally representative data from a survey of 14,009 households in Ghana. After controlling for household, and geographical characteristics and using a standard instrumental variable approach to control for unobservable characteristics, we find a statistically significant negative relationship between food hardship and the number of children attending secondary, private, public, technical and vocational school, and expenditure on education. A differential analysis based on welfare stratification indicates a statistically significant positive relationship between food hardship and male children attending school, and the number of children attending private school for those in high-income households. |
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| Keywords: | Food hardship School attendance Education expenditure Instrumental variable |
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