The Impact of Household Participation in Off-farm Income Generating Activities on Children Educational Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Aregawi, Gebremedhin (Phd) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Asimamaw, Belete | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T08:22:09Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:28:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T08:22:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:28:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigates the impact of household participation in off-farm income generating activities on children’s educational outcomes in rural Ethiopia. The analysis uses Ethiopian Socioeconomic survey panel data collected in three periods (i.e. 2011/12, 2013/14, and 2015/16). Propensity Score Matching in combination with Difference-in-Difference (PSM-DID) estimator was applied to estimate effects. The results from probit model suggest that credit, household size, mean schooling of males and female, government and non-governmental assistance, children’s labor and age positively affected household’s participation in off-farm activities. Whereas, sex and age of head, livestock owned in TLU, covariate shocks and farm earning negatively affected offfarm participation. The results from matching with difference-in-difference suggests that household participation in off-farm activities had a negative impact on children’s educational outcomes such as highest grade completed, current enrollment and basic literacy skill of children. Household’s exit from off-farm activities significantly reduced proportion of children who absent from school and increased proportion of children who ever attended formal education. Household’s off-farm participation affects children’s educational outcomes through increasing demand of child labor in off-farm work. Higher proportion of children participated in off-farm activities who lives with participated household’s compared to their counterparts. In addition, it may increase demand of children’s work in farm for boys and home work for girls. The study suggests that incentivizing households for schooling their children instead of using their time on off-farm activities should be considered. Incentives such as cash transfer, free supply of educational materials such as pens, exercise books, school uniforms, cloths during a big holidays such as New Year and Christmas should be given to children belonging to participant households. In addition, Empowering rural households in obtaining sufficient income through promoting livestock sector, expanding modern agricultural systems such as irrigation system, encouraging cash crops production, and providing modern inputs such as improved seed and fertilizers, and tractors need to be considered. Family planning policy should be worked widely as the family size has negative impact on educational outcomes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/22097 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Difference-in-Difference | en_US |
| dc.subject | Educational outcomes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Off-farm participation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Propensity Score Matching | en_US |
| dc.title | The Impact of Household Participation in Off-farm Income Generating Activities on Children Educational Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |