Why Do Children Quit School in Tanzania?: Impact of Parental Preference on Schooling - Open Journal of Social Sciences

JSS > Vol.10 No.13, December 2022

Open Journal of Social Sciences

Volume 10, Issue 13 (December 2022)

ISSN Print: 2327-5952 ISSN Online: 2327-5960

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Why Do Children Quit School in Tanzania?: Impact of Parental Preference on Schooling ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jss.2022.1013033 124 Downloads 1,245 Views

Author(s)

Masoud Saleh Issa^1,2*, Maryam Issa Juma³, Amran Said Suleiman⁴

Affiliation(s)

¹Research Institute of Finance and Management, South Western University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan, China.
²School of Business, The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Zanzibar, Tanzania.
³Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
⁴Department of Teachers Education, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT), Zanzibar, Tanzania.

ABSTRACT

This paper uses a Probit model to identify if parental preference in expenditure plays a significant role in children schooling. The study reveals that parental preference of education expenditure significantly influences child schooling, regardless of wealth or community characteristics. While the preference for alcohol and tobacco, health, and food expenditure have a negative influence on child schooling. However, when we control poverty and community characteristics, they show no influence. This signifies that the influence of increasing preference in alcohol, health, and food expenditure to child schooling will only affect poor families.

KEYWORDS

Parental Preference, Child Schooling, Probit Model, Community Characteristics, School Dropout

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Issa, M. , Juma, M. and Suleiman, A. (2022) Why Do Children Quit School in Tanzania?: Impact of Parental Preference on Schooling. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10, 467-488. doi: 10.4236/jss.2022.1013033.

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