🆕 How care responsibilities hold girls back at school
Today on VoxDev, Thomas Thivillon (Bordeaux Sciences Economiques / Bordeaux School of Economics) discusses how elderly caregiving responsibilities harm girls' education in Senegal: https://ow.ly/29rH50YcHqK
I am thrilled to share that my column on the impacts of care responsibilities on girls' education is now live on @voxdev.bsky.social! 👇
🙏 Many thanks to two anonymous referees and to the editor Maarten Lindeboom for their guidance. #JournalofHealthEconomics #HealthEconomics #DevelopmentEconomics #GenderInequalities #Aging #Africa #Senegal
➡️ Africa’s population aged 60+ is projected to triple between 2020 and 2050. More research and public investment are urgently needed to design policies that support aging Africans and their caregivers.
The effects are driven by teenage girls, especially those who co-resided with less autonomous elderly household members at baseline (no effect for younger girls). ➡️ Gender norms in domestic work have implications for gender inequalities in education.
📈 What I find: Girls affected by an elderly death complete 0.6 years (20%) of extra education during the study period and are 3.8 percentage points less likely to conduct more than 15 hours of caregiving work per week than they would be in the absence of the shock.
🔍 What I do: Using panel data on Senegalese schoolchildren’s time use and co-residence with elderly individuals, I assess the effect of the deaths of elderly household members on teenage girls’ time dedicated to informal caregiving work and on their educational attainment over a period of 4 years.
📢 New paper out 📢 I am very happy to share that my paper “Demand for informal caregiving and human capital accumulation: Evidence from elderly deaths in Senegal” has just been published in the Journal of Health Economics.
Read it here (open access): lnkd.in/ev9uyS59
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Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) users, I am launching this thread to list all resources from which DHS survey data can be downloaded while the DHS program is on pause. Here is the link to Peru's DHS surveys (up to 2013 and subsequently ENDES): proyectos.inei.gob.pe/iinei/sriena...
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I use a remarkable. It's great to annotate papers and more generally to take handwritten notes. I love it. But it's really a paper tablet designed to replace a notebook, not a laptop.
