IMPACT OF REGIONAL WEALTH DISPARITIES ON CHILD SCHOOLING: A CASE OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN
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This paper aims is to explore the effect of wealth disparity between the districts of Punjab on school enrolment of children 3-14 years age group for the period 2008, 2011, 2014. This study has used the probit model and it also uses the principal component analysis to create an index for district wealth disparity to examine how it influences schooling of children in developing economies. The findings expose that probability of school enrolment is negatively influenced by wealth disparity of the districts in all three models, i.e., for all children. In the control variables, the households getting remittances lead to increase the schooling of children. Parents’ education raises the possibility of schooling in all the three models. The education of mother affects child enrolment more as compared education of head in all models. Children were less willing for schooling in the year 2007 for all the three models. The findings suggest that the sliding down the disparity among the districts of Punjab desires equivalent distribution of funds from government of Punjab to the districts. It may increase the household welfare by high school enrolment of children. This study creates district wealth disparity index by using the principal component analysis and uses differential formula to explain the socioeconomic regional disparities across the districts of Punjab in Pakistan.
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