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Educational Inequalities between Siblings: Evidence from Six Sub‐Saharan African Countries
Author(s) -
Senghor Hady,
Wolff FrançoisCharles
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
african development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-8268
pISSN - 1017-6772
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8268.12252
Subject(s) - inequality , ordered probit , demographic economics , probit , developing country , variance (accounting) , probit model , estimation , economics , econometrics , geography , economic growth , mathematics , mathematical analysis , accounting , management
This paper investigates the determinants of educational achievements using household data collected in 2009 and 2010 from six sub‐Saharan African countries. The econometric strategy combines estimation of random effect Probit models and variance decompositions to assess the relative contributions of between‐family and within‐family inequalities in schooling. Whilst the selected countries are rather heterogeneous in terms of economic development and public education expenditures, very similar results are found in five out of the six sub‐Saharan countries. More than two‐thirds of differences in schooling are explained by educational differences between families and within‐household inequalities are very difficult to explain by observed family characteristics.