Children's Education Attainment

FRANCISCO M.P MUGIZI, PhD 13102
PROPOSAL FOR ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT

Parental Death and Children’s Education Attainment Introduction
Although Tanzania has recorded an improvement in life expectancy over the recent years from 43.9 in 1961 to 61.49 in 2013, her life expectancy is still low compared to that of developed countries. Apart from high infant mortality rate mainly due to malaria, young parents’ mortality rate is relatively high. The latter is mainly caused by prevalence of several diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, and recently road accidents mainly car and motorcycle accidents. Yet, another source specific to women is maternal deaths, for example in 2010 the country had 460 deaths per 100,000 live births.

One of

The proposed research is to be done in Kagera Tanzania. This region is exceptional in that it is the first place where the first victim of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania was found in early 1980s. Consequently, apart from adult deaths caused by other factors and others diseases, between late 1980s-1990s many of its young parents died and as a result many children became orphans. Hence study findings from this region may shed some light on whether parental death has any long-term effect on children’s schooling. Objectives
The overall objective of the proposed study is to examine whether parental death affects children’s schooling. Specifically, it seeks to examine: Whether there is negative relationship between a child’s education attainment and parental death; Whether the relationship if any varies between paternal and maternal death; Whether the relationship if any varies between orphanage daughters and boys; and Whether the relationship if any is different between orphans without one of the parents and those without both

The baseline data of this longitudinal survey was conducted from (1991-1994) and interviewed about 912 households from nearly 50 communities in all five districts of Kagera. In 2004 another KHDS was done basically aiming at providing data to understand economic mobility and changes in living standards of the sample of individuals interviewed in 1991-1994. It attempted to re-interview all respondents ever interviewed in the KHDS 1991-1994 even if they had moved out of the village, region or country. A third round of KHDS was done 6 years later in 2010. Just like the KHDS 2004, it re-interviewed everyone who appeared on the original KHDS household member rosters, irrespective of whether they have moved out of the original village, or have split off into new