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Boys and Girls? Changing Educational Opportunities in Thailand: The Effects of Siblings, Migration and Village Location

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  • Sara Curran

    (Princeton University)

  • Wendy Cadge

    (Princeton University)

  • Anchalee Varangrat

    (Mahidol University)

  • Chang Chung

    (Princeton University)

Abstract

This paper uses unique data to explore, at multiple levels, the correlates and causes of increasing educational opportunity and declining gender inequality in education in rural Thailand. We examine three correlates of educational opportunity that are of theoretical and empirical interest: sibling number, gender, migration and the relative location of primary and secondary schools. The relationship among these correlates and children?s educational opportunities is considered through the lens of the household economy literature in the context of social change and economic development in Thailand. The longitudinal data capture one period of rapid economic development in Thailand between 1984 and 1994 and include information about more than 5,000 households, their members, and the 51 communities in which they live.

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  • Sara Curran & Wendy Cadge & Anchalee Varangrat & Chang Chung, 2001. "Boys and Girls? Changing Educational Opportunities in Thailand: The Effects of Siblings, Migration and Village Location," Working Papers 312, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research..
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    1. Raffaele Guetto & Francesca Zanasi & Maria Carella, 2022. "Non-intact Families and Children’s Educational Outcomes: Comparing Native and Migrant Pupils," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 38(5), pages 1065-1094, December.

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    Keywords

    Thailand;

    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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