Female househol headship in the Philippines: prevalence, heterogeneity, and implications on investment in child education
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2014-04
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Looking beyond the dichotomous view of male versus female household headship that exist in much of the economics literature, the paper aims to determine whether heterogeneity among female-headed households, distinguishing between de jure and de facto female heads, impact their investment in child education differently. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, the paper examines whether education expenditures are homogeneous across: (1) male and female-headed households; (2) de jure and de facto female heads; and (3) all income deciles. The regression results confirm recent literature's findings that female-headed households generally invest more on child education than male-headed households. However, when investigated if the same holds true for typologies of female-headed households - de jure and de facto - and across all income deciles, only those belonging to the de facto type and higher income deciles invest more on child education than their male-headed counterparts. Furthermore, the higher the income decile these female-headed households belong to, the greater is their investment in child education.
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household, female headship, child education, SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education