Working Paper: NBER ID: w17165
Authors: Richard Akresh; Eric V. Edmonds
Abstract: We consider the influence of household-based production on human capital investment. In data from rural Burkina Faso, we document a positive correlation between the presence of girls and enrollment that disappears in households that are able to send out or receive in children. We argue that the connection between education and the sex composition of co-resident children in households that are constrained in their ability to adjust child labor owes to residential rivalry, the idea that having a greater share of resident children with an advantage in household based production increases education by reducing the within-household equilibrium value of child time.
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JEL Codes: O15
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| greater share of resident girls (I24) | school enrollment (I21) |
| residential rivalry (R21) | educational investments (I26) |
| constraints on child labor availability (J82) | educational outcomes (I26) |
| fostering networks (D85) | mitigate effects of residential rivalry (R21) |