Mothers Non Farm Entrepreneurship And Child Secondary Education In Rural Ghana

Download or read book Mothers’ Non-Farm Entrepreneurship and Child Secondary Education in Rural Ghana written by Janssens, Charlotte and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship on child secondary school enrollment in rural Ghana. We use nationally representative quantitative data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS) and qualitative data from focus group discussions throughout rural Ghana. We apply instrumental variable estimation techniques with instruments that pass weak and overidentification tests. We test interaction effects between mothers’ non-farm entrepreneurship and other important determinants of child schooling. We use qualitative data to support our quantitative findings.