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    Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea

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    Authors
    Ryan, S.
    Koczberski, G.
    Curry, George
    Germis, E.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ryan, S. and Koczberski, G. and Curry, G. and Germis, E. 2017. Intra-household constraints on educational attainment in rural households in Papua New Guinea. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 58 (1): pp. 27-40.
    Source Title
    Asia Pacific Viewpoint
    DOI
    10.1111/apv.12143
    ISSN
    1360-7456
    School
    Department of Planning and Geography
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50006
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This paper examines intra-household and socio-cultural factors leading to differential outcomes in educational attainment by gender and birth order amongst smallholder oil palm households in Papua New Guinea. Not all children share equitably in the household resources allocated to education: females have lower average education levels than males, and high birth order children have higher education attainment than lower birth order siblings, indicating preferential parental investment in sons and early born children. The findings demonstrate that despite households having regular access to relatively high incomes from oil palm and residing in close proximity to schools, primary school net enrolment rates remain significantly lower than those for East Asia and the Pacific region, and the millennium development goal of universal primary education has not been met. This finding is likely to be the result of a combination of intra-household factors including gender power imbalances, low parental education levels, the agency of youth in educational decision-making and the weakening attraction of education as a means of improving income-earning potential.

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