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Choc de revenu et éducation des enfants en présence d'imperfection du marché du crédit.Le cas du Malawi*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2016
Résumé
Cet article montre que les ménages utilisent le retrait des enfants du système éducatif comme stratégie ex-post de gestion des chocs de revenu qu'ils subissent. L'analyse souligne également qu'un grand nombre d'enfants dans un ménage affecte négativement la probabilité de scolarisation des enfants, mettant ainsi en exergue l'existence d'un arbitrage dans l'allocation des ressources d'éducation entre les enfants du ménage. Cet arbitrage de ressources laisse place à un effet d'incitation lorsque l'on prend en compte la scolarisation des frères et soeurs: des enfants ayant des frères et sœurs scolarisés ont de plus grande chance d'aller à l'école. Ce résultat remet ainsi en cause l'hypothèse largement acceptée de dilution de ressources intra-ménages pour l'éducation.
Summary
This paper shows that households take children out of school as risk coping strategy in response to income shocks under binding credit constraints. The analysis also highlights trade-off in resource allocation for education. A higher number of children in household decreases the probability of their schooling. Instead of the resource competition among siblings, the results show an incitation effect when the schooling status of brothers and sisters is taken into account: children with brothers and sisters going to school have better chance to go to school. This result challenges the generally admitted hypothesis of resource competition among siblings in the literature. A new incitation effect, highlighting the positive effect of siblings schooling on the probability of schooling of other children in the household is thus put forward.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , 2010 , pp. 391 - 411
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- Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 2010
Footnotes
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CERDI-CNRS, Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA.
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Une version préliminaire de cet article a reçu la mention du Prix Jean-Claude Eicher d'Economie de I'Education. L'auteur remercie Leandre Bassolé, Todd Benson, Anne-Sophie Kaïs, Rachid Laajaj, Luc Désiré Omgba ainsi que deux rapporteurs anonymes pour leurs commentaires et critiques.
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