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    Evaluation of the Philippine government major scholarship and study grant programs
    (2003-04) Capulong, Lea M.; Malazarte, Melissa G.
    Evaluating the equity, efficiency and adequacy of the Philippine Government Major Scholarship and Study Grant Programs is the goal of this study. In order to gauge the equity of the programs, the distribution of the scholarship slots per region, including the NCR, CAR, CARAGA and ARMM in each program is evaluated. The efficiency of the programs is defined in terms of their success in achieving their goal of distributing slots to priority courses, which are said to contribute greatly to the economic development of the country. The programs are also evaluated on how adequate they are in equalizing education opportunities by comparing the percentage of the total number of student scholars and students with financial assistance with the total number of students in the tertiary level. Descriptive analysis led us to conclude that there is uneven regional distribution; more slots are given to regions like NCR while regions with the highest rate of incidence of poverty are given the lowest number of slots. It was also found out that the Research and Information Technology is given priority by the government, however Engineering and Math, and Computer Science only ranked fourth and fifth consecutively from the most demanded courses of the student beneficiaries. Furthermore, accommodated number of grantees is comparatively insignificant to the yearly total enrollment of the students in the tertiary level and the government has yet to succeed in redistributing educational opportunities to all.
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    Bearing young: early motherhood and human capital development
    (2006-03) Santos, April Joy C.; Toledo, Rhiana Marie M.; Pernia, Ernesto
    Early motherhood tends to reduce years of schooling, work experience and, hence, wages of young mothers. Previous researches show that early motherhood results in adverse socioeconomic consequences. Other studies also note that teen mothers come from rural areas, have little access to education, and live in poverty. In this research data from the 2002 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Survey (YAFS) were used to analyze the effects of teenĀ· motherhood on human capital investment and labor force participation using the logit model. Results show that age at first birth is a significant factor in determining the young mother's decisions to invest in further education. In the case of labor force participation, younger mothers are likely to join the labor force than pursue further schooling. An implication is that the government should give greater importance to the education and employment of the youth to reduce the incidence of early child bearing, thereby preventing them from getting into socioeconomic hardships.
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    The effect of relative inequality on the Filipino household's spending of international remittances for human capital development
    (2009-11) Camagay, Daniel Caferino; Samson, Camille
    This study explores the impact of international remittances on the Filipino household's consumption of pre-selected expenditure groups with a focus on spending in human capital development, i.e. education and health care. In addition, since relative deprivation has been found to increase the tendency of a household member to migrate, its role as a driver of human capital spending is looked into as well. The relative inequality of a household is estimated using .. three measures: relative income position, regional Gini coefficients and regional poverty incidence. Since each expenditure item is measured as a share in total household budget, the relative change in each share induced by remittance income is accounted for with respect to changes in the other expenditure shares of the same household due to the same flow of remittance income. The Seemingly Unrelated Regression model allows us to do this. Results yield that there is empirical evidence to conclude that it is the household's experienced relative inequality that motivates greater spending in human capital development per unit of remittance income received.