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Working-Age Adult Mortality and Primary School Attendance in Rural Kenya
Author(s): Yamano,Takashi;Jayne,Thomas
Introduction
This paper measures the impact of working-age adult mortality on child primary school attendance in Kenya. Kenya is one of the
most heavily HIV-infected countries in the world: 13.5 percent of adults aged 15 to 49 are estimated
to be living with HIV in June 2000. The paper estimates effects on boys’ and girls’ schooling
separately, to understand potential gender differences resulting from adult mortality. We also
examine how adult mortality potentially affects child schooling differently before as opposed to after the death occurs. The paper also estimates the importance of households’ initial asset levels in
influencing the relationship between adult
mortality and child school attendance.
A major difficulty in measuring the impact of adult
mortality, especially mortality attributable to
AIDS, is that it is caused by behavioral choices
rather than by random events. We overcome this
problem, to some extent, by estimating household-
and child-fixed effects models using panel data.
Document Reference No: 45
Language: English
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