The Changing Determinants of Schooling Investments: Evidence from Villages in the Philippines, 1985–89 and 2002–04
利用菲律宾四个村庄的长期家庭面板数据，研究了1980年代末和2000年代初儿童教育投资决定因素的变化，发现家庭收入来源从农业转向非农活动，非农收入和土地典当成为主要教育资金来源。
This paper aims to explore the changing determinants of child progress through school over the last two decades using unique long-term household-panel data from four villages in the Philippines. In a regime of low income in the late 1980s, income from farming is the most important source of funds to finance child schooling. As households shift away from farm to non-farm activities and their children pursue higher education, non-farm income and revenues from pawning of land have emerged as main sources of schooling funds in the early 2000s. In this process, farm income has lost its prime importance as a determinant of schooling investments among rural households.