Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea
This paper examines intra-household and socio-cultural factors leading to differential outcomes in educational attainment by gender and birth order amongst smallholder oil palm households in Papua New Guinea. Not all children share equitably in the household resources allocated to education: females...
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| author | Ryan, S. Koczberski, G. Curry, George Germis, E. |
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| description | This paper examines intra-household and socio-cultural factors leading to differential outcomes in educational attainment by gender and birth order amongst smallholder oil palm households in Papua New Guinea. Not all children share equitably in the household resources allocated to education: females have lower average education levels than males, and high birth order children have higher education attainment than lower birth order siblings, indicating preferential parental investment in sons and early born children. The findings demonstrate that despite households having regular access to relatively high incomes from oil palm and residing in close proximity to schools, primary school net enrolment rates remain significantly lower than those for East Asia and the Pacific region, and the millennium development goal of universal primary education has not been met. This finding is likely to be the result of a combination of intra-household factors including gender power imbalances, low parental education levels, the agency of youth in educational decision-making and the weakening attraction of education as a means of improving income-earning potential. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-500062017-09-13T16:08:47Z Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea Ryan, S. Koczberski, G. Curry, George Germis, E. This paper examines intra-household and socio-cultural factors leading to differential outcomes in educational attainment by gender and birth order amongst smallholder oil palm households in Papua New Guinea. Not all children share equitably in the household resources allocated to education: females have lower average education levels than males, and high birth order children have higher education attainment than lower birth order siblings, indicating preferential parental investment in sons and early born children. The findings demonstrate that despite households having regular access to relatively high incomes from oil palm and residing in close proximity to schools, primary school net enrolment rates remain significantly lower than those for East Asia and the Pacific region, and the millennium development goal of universal primary education has not been met. This finding is likely to be the result of a combination of intra-household factors including gender power imbalances, low parental education levels, the agency of youth in educational decision-making and the weakening attraction of education as a means of improving income-earning potential. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50006 10.1111/apv.12143 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia unknown |
| spellingShingle | Ryan, S. Koczberski, G. Curry, George Germis, E. Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title | Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full | Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_fullStr | Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_short | Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea |
| title_sort | intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in papua new guinea |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50006 |