Negative economic shocks and child schooling: Evidence from rural Malawi
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Negative economic shocks and child schooling: Evidence from Rural Malawi.
This study investigates the impacts of negative economic shocks on child schooling in households of rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Both individually-reported and community-level shocks are investigated. There is evidence that community level shocks negatively impact the school enrolment of children. The point estimates suggest that this effect is larger ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Development Southern Africa
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0376-835X,1470-3637
DOI: 10.1080/0376835x.2015.1039707