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The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programmes on Women's Labour Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya

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  • Michael M. Lokshin
  • Elena Glinskaya
  • Marito Garcia

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We analyse the effect of child care costs on households' behaviour in Kenya. For households with children 3--7 years of age, we model the participation of the mother in paid work, the participation of other household members in paid work, household demand for schooling for school-aged children and household demand for child care. We find that high costs of child care discourage households from using formal child care and reduce the level of mothers' participation in market work. The cost of child care and a mother's wage level influence school enrolment of older children. However, these two factors affect boys' and girls' schooling in different ways. An increase in the mother's wage increases school enrolment for boys, but decreases it for girls. Higher prices for child care have no significant effect on boys' schooling but significantly decrease girls' schooling. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

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  • Michael M. Lokshin & Elena Glinskaya & Marito Garcia, 2004. "The Effect of Early Childhood Development Programmes on Women's Labour Force Participation and Older Children's Schooling in Kenya," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 13(2), pages 240-276, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:jafrec:v:13:y:2004:i:2:p:240-276
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    1. Sarah Bridges & David Lawson, 2008. "Health and Labour Market Participation in Uganda," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2008-07, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Dixon, Jenna & Luginaah, Isaac & Mkandawire, Paul, 2014. "The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana's Upper West Region: A gendered perspective of insurance acquisition in a resource-poor setting," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 103-112.
    3. Lina Cardona-Sosa & Leonardo Morales, 2015. "Efectos laborales de los servicios de cuidado infantil: evidencia del programa Buen Comienzo," Borradores de Economia 12787, Banco de la Republica.
    4. Glick, Peter, 2008. "What Policies will Reduce Gender Schooling Gaps in Developing Countries: Evidence and Interpretation," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(9), pages 1623-1646, September.
    5. Marian Meller & Stephan Litschig, 2016. "Adapting the Supply of Education to the Needs of Girls: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Rural India," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 51(3), pages 760-802.
    6. Yamamoto, Yuki & Matsumoto, Ken’ichi & Kawata, Keisuke & Kaneko, Shinji, 2019. "Gender-based differences in employment opportunities and wage distribution in Nepal," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 1-1.
    7. L.Guarcello & B.Henschel & S.Lyon & F.Rosati & C. Valdivia, 2006. "Child Labour in the Latin America and Carribean Region: a Gender Based Analisys," UCW Working Paper 17, Understanding Children's Work (UCW Programme).

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