An analysis of the relationship of the comprehensive agrarian reform program on the school attendance of children
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2012-10
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Land reform has been one of the key agenda of the Philippines to reduce poverty and encourage the accumulation of human capital investments. One of the most important human capital investments is education that has been known to play a vital role in a country's socio-economic growth and development. This paper aims to examine the relationship of land reform to education, particularly to the school attendance of the beneficiaries' children. The researchers used a probit regression to determine whether the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program is correlated with the school attendance of children. The study utilized information concerning children aged 6 to 17 years old, derived from the Annual Poverty Indicator Survey of 2010. Results show that land reform increases the school attendance of children by 5 percent. This finding substantiates the literature that land reform indeed has a lot of beneficial impacts on poverty reduction and income inequality reduction, and more importantly on human-capital accumulation.
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land reform, education, human capital accumulation