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Опубликовано на портале: 24-12-2003
Flora J. Nankhuni, Jill L. Findeis
Durban, 2003
This paper presents results of research that investigates if long hours of work spent
by children in fuel wood
collection and water collection activities, hereafter referred to as resource (collection)
work, are related to the
probability that a child aged 6-14 will attend school. Possible endogeneity
of resource work hours is
corrected for, using two-stage conditional maximum likelihood estimation.
Using data from a 1997-98
Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS) conducted by the National Statistics
Office (NSO), the study
finds that children are significantly involved in resource collection work and their
probability of attending
school decreases with increases in hours spent on this work. The study further shows
that girls spend more
hours on resource work and are more likely to be going to school while
burdened by this work.
Consequently, girls may find it difficult to progress well in school. However, girls
are not necessarily less
likely to be attending school. The results further show that presence
of more women in a household is
associated with a lower burden of resource work on children and a higher probability
of children.s school
attendance while that of men is not. Finally, the study shows that children from
the most environmentally
degraded districts of central and southern Malawi are less likely to attend
school and few of them have
progressed to secondary school compared to those from the north region districts.

