- Title
- Boys and Girls? Changing Educational Opportunities in Thailand: The Effects of Siblings, Migration and Village Location
- Author(s)
- Sara Curran Sara Curran (Princeton University)
- Wendy Cadge Wendy Cadge (Princeton University)
- Anchalee Varangrat Anchalee Varangrat (Mahidol University)
- Chang Chung Chang Chung (Princeton University)
- Abstract
- This paper uses unique data to explore, at multiple levels, the correlates and causes of increasing educational opportunity and declining gender inequality in education in rural Thailand. We examine three correlates of educational opportunity that are of theoretical and empirical interest: sibling number, gender, migration and the relative location of primary and secondary schools. The relationship among these correlates and children?s educational opportunities is considered through the lens of the household economy literature in the context of social change and economic development in Thailand. The longitudinal data capture one period of rapid economic development in Thailand between 1984 and 1994 and include information about more than 5,000 households, their members, and the 51 communities in which they live.
- Creation Date
- 2001-01
- Section URL ID
- OPR
- Paper Number
- opr0101.pdf
- URL
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150906191102/http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr0101.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- I24, F22
- Keyword(s)
- Thailand
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 11