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- Title
Determinants of Household Education Expenditure in Uganda: Do the Poor Spend More on Education than the Rich?
- Authors
Nabiddo, Winnie; Yawe, Bruno L.; Wasswa, Francis
- Abstract
This study estimates the Tobit and IV Tobit models using data from the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) 2019/20 to analyse factors that influence household education spending, and examine the impact of different income groups on education spending in Uganda. The findings show a positive relationship between household income on the one hand; and the level of education of the head of household, household size, urban residence, female-headed household and education spending on the other. Furthermore, higher-income households are found to have a high-income elasticity of demand than low-income households. An increase in total household income for high-income quintile households is found to increase educational expenditures by a percentage point than for low-income quintile households. Due to this disparity, the government is advised to revise its cost-sharing approach to public education spending, which needs to be supplemented by household education spending.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLDS; EDUCATION costs; EDUCATIONAL finance; ENGEL curve; ELASTICITY (Economics); CONSUMPTION (Economics)
- Publication
Tanzania Economic Review, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 1, p182
- ISSN
0856-3373
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.56279/ter.v13i1.104