This paper aims to find the effects of mothers’ schooling on child schooling.
This paper uses Bangladesh's Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), which is a nationally representative survey. It employs the instrumental variable technique to estimate the intergenerational model.
Interestingly, the results show that the intergenerational transmission of schooling from mothers is slightly higher than that of fathers in Bangladesh.
Estimating the intergenerational model is challenging due to the endogeneity issue. The methodology used in this paper may help to find similar evidence from other countries.
The findings of the study may help to design and evaluate the educational policies in Bangladesh or a country like Bangladesh. For instance, the results of this paper suggest that the female stipend program (FSP) in Bangladesh is effective for the next generation’s schooling.
This paper is among the first to analyze the effect of mother’s schooling on the child’s schooling, controlling the father’s education and other household characteristics. In addition, it controls for endogeneity bias due to genetic transmission.
Citation
Uddin, M.N. and Sarntisart, S. (2024). The effects of mother's schooling on next generation’s schooling: evidence from Bangladesh. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
This paper aims to compare the educational attainment of a conflict region (the Deep South) and a non-conflict region (the rest of the South) of Thailand using the Socio-Economic Survey, 2015. This paper employs the Instrumental Variable approach and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition in an intergenerational regression model. When controlling parental schooling, household income and size, religion, and gender, the results show that children from the Deep South obtain almost one year less schooling than children from the rest of the Southern region. Interestingly, Muslims are ahead in terms of educational attainment when compared to non-Muslims in the non-conflict region, but not in the conflict region. Females outperform males in both regions, but the coefficient of female dummy is higher in the non-conflict region. Moreover, the rate of intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is higher in the Deep South compared to that in the rest of the southern region, which may lead to long-term educational inequality in the Deep South region. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition confirms that the 40% schooling gap between these two regions is unexplained but might be due to the chronic social unrest. The findings of this paper show that customized educational reforms and policies to resolve the conflict in the Deep South of Thailand should be employed.
Citation
Uddin, M. N., & Sarntisart, S. (2023). The Schooling Gap between the Deep South and the Rest of the South in Thailand. Defence and Peace Economics, 34(2), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2022.2027183
Three border provinces in southern Thailand commonly known as the Deep South have a long history of conflicts and insurgency. These chronic conflicts in the Deep South may forcibly hinder educational attainment and its effectiveness in the aggregate economy. This study aimed to analyze the comparative effects of education on the aggregate economy between the Deep South (a region with conflict) and other provinces of the South (a region of harmony) in Thailand. The Thai Labor Force Survey from 1995 to 2015, a large-scale national survey conducted by the National Statistical Office, and data from the Office of National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) of Thailand were used for the analysis. Employing a Random Effect Model and pooled regression, this study revealed that if average schooling increases by one percent, overall economic output will increase by 2.62%. However, the effects of educational attainment are significantly lower in the Deep South economy compared to other southern provinces. Therefore, this study provides an analysis of the comparative effects of schooling on the economy between areas of conflict and harmony because this issue has not been properly addressed in the existing literature.
Citation
Uddin, M. N., Sarntisart, S., Mahbub, A., & Rahmatullah, A. B. M. (2023). Power of education in economic conflicts: how the Deep South differs from other southern provinces in Thailand?. Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 7(3), 987-1005.