Does Education Represent a Social Protection for Lifetime in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Autor/inn/en	Checchi, Daniele; Salvi, Angelica
Titel	Does Education Represent a Social Protection for Lifetime in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Quelle	In: African Educational Research Journal, 5 (2017) 4, S.254-280 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2354-2160
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Role of Education; Attendance; Educational Attainment; Correlation; Literacy; Resources; Economic Factors; Teacher Student Ratio; Outcomes of Education; Employment Level; Wages; Parent Background; Access to Education; Natural Disasters; War; Probability; Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education; Enrollment Rate; Africa; Mauritania; Uganda; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsauftrag; Anwesenheit; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Korrelation; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Betriebsmittel; Hilfsmittel; Ökonomischer Faktor; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Beschäftigungsgrad; Wage; Löhne; Elternhaus; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Krieg; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Elementarunterricht; Sekundarbereich; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Afrika; Mauretanien
Abstract	This study provides evidence on the distribution of school attendance and educational attainment across African countries, focusing on the correlation with literacy rates in the population, level of resources and country institutional features. The study also estimate sample correlations between enrolment and macroaggregates, related to resources (GDP per capita, student/teacher ratio), computing some counterfactuals. The authors then move to micro-data, selecting three African countries as representative examples of low (Mauritania), middle (Uganda) and high (Ghana) educational attainment. Using social surveys conducted in these countries, the authors estimate the returns to education in terms of better quality of employment (for those who are in the labour market) and of higher monetary returns (for the sub-sample of those earning a monetary wage). In addition, the authors collapse the data at household level, in order to study the determinants of individual educational attainment of children aged between 5 and 25, showing the correlation between parental education, availability of schools at community level, external shocks (like drought, famine, war) and the individual probability of being in school. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01