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Sources of family income and expenditure on children's private, after‐school education in Korea
Author(s) -
Chung Young Sook,
Choe Minja Kim
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of consumer studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 1470-6423
DOI - 10.1046/j.1470-6431.2001.00160.x
Subject(s) - private school , wife , family income , context (archaeology) , demographic economics , private education , ordinary least squares , order (exchange) , school education , psychology , economics , economic growth , higher education , political science , geography , pedagogy , finance , archaeology , law , econometrics
This paper examines the relationship between sources of family income and household expenditure on private, after‐school education for children in secondary schools in Korea in the context of educational ‘credentialism’, which values evidence of college education highly. Data from a survey of 514 parents of secondary school students are used. Estimated ordinary least squares coefficients indicate that the wife's income, but not the husband's, was positively associated with the amount of spending on children's education at private, after‐school programmes. This finding suggests that some married women with children in Korea seek employment in order to earn the money needed for their children's private, after‐school education.