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Direct linkEsther Duflo; Pascaline Dupas; Elizabeth Spelke; Mark P. Walsh – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. For young women, receiving a scholarship for secondary school delays childbearing and marriage, and reduces unwanted pregnancies. Female scholarship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Scholarships, Program Effectiveness
Download full textAhwireng, Doreen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Resuming in-person teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic implies that schools must deploy strategies to enforce adherence to the safety protocols to help contain and reduce the spread of the corona virus disease among school children. Thus, the current qualitative study adopted a case study design to explore strategies that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Owusu, Samuel Asiedu; Owusu, Rebecca Asiedu; Hampshire, Kate – Child Care in Practice, 2021
As work practices and living arrangements change, many mothers, who are often primary child caregivers, have to make some decisions as they try to balance childcare with paid work. Increasingly, childcare is shared between parents and other caregivers. However, little is known, especially in Ghana, about the childcare practices of mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Caregiver Child Relationship, Drug Therapy
Fianko, Joseph Richmond; Gawu, Josephine Akosua – Health Education Research, 2020
Hand washing is effective for the prevention and transmission of pathogens but washing with water only is not effective at reducing contamination. The study focussed on the evaluation of hand washing behaviour in Basic schools (Primary and Junior High Schools) in Ghana. Results of the study revealed that 75% of responding schools have hand washing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Hygiene
Whyte, Nancy Sekyi; Amissah, Augustina Araba; Mensah, Justice – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Childhood obesity is a critical global public health issue due to its association with psychological, social, economic and health problems. This study explored the potency of using teachers in managing childhood obesity among primary school pupils in a Ghanaian Metropolis, Cape Coast. Structured questionnaire were used for data collection. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Obesity, Child Health, Elementary School Students
Prado, Elizabeth L.; Abbeddou, Souheila; Adu-Afarwuah, Seth; Arimond, Mary; Ashorn, Per; Ashorn, Ulla; Bendabenda, Jaden; Brown, Kenneth H.; Hess, Sonja Y.; Kortekangas, Emma; Lartey, Anna; Maleta, Kenneth; Oaks, Brietta M.; Ocansey, Eugenia; Okronipa, Harriet; Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco; Pulakka, Anna; Somé, Jérôme W.; Stewart, Christine P.; Stewart, Robert C.; Vosti, Stephen A.; Yakes Jimenez, Elizabeth; Dewey, Kathryn G. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Previous reviews have identified 44 risk factors for poor early child development (ECD) in low- and middle-income countries. Further understanding of their relative influence and pathways is needed to inform the design of interventions targeting ECD. Methods: We conducted path analyses of factors associated with 18-month language and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Motor Development, Young Children
Watkins, Kevin – UNICEF, 2016
Every child has the right to health, education and protection, and every society has a stake in expanding children's opportunities in life. Yet, around the world, millions of children are denied a fair chance for no reason other than the country, gender or circumstances into which they are born. The "State of the World's Children 2016"…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Access to Education, Equal Education, Disadvantaged
Obeng, Cecilia – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2011
Research on alcohol misuse and abuse indicates that it can cause many personal health and family problems. This study investigated whether Ghanaian parents would reward their children with alcohol if they sent the children to buy alcoholic drinks and whether they would favor legislation banning children from using alcohol. Also addressed in this…
Descriptors: Drinking, Hygiene, Foreign Countries, Alcohol Abuse
Behrman, Jere R.; Lavy, Victor – 1994
This paper explores the relationship child health and educational achievement using data from the Ghanaian Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS), as well as the reliability of such health-education studies in general. An analysis of the data indicated that: (1) the failure to control for estimation problems in the LSMS and other studies has led…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedThomas, Duncan – Journal of Human Resources, 1994
Survey data from the United States, Brazil, and Ghana revealed that, in all three, mothers' education had a greater effect on daughters' height, fathers' education on sons' height. There appear to be differences in the allocation of household resources, nutrition, and child rearing that are dependent on children's and parents' gender. (SK)
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries
Glewwe, Paul; Jacoby, Hanan – 1993
This study investigated why the primary school enrollment of children in poor countries is often delayed despite the prediction made by human capital theory that schooling will begin at the earliest possible age. Using data from the 1988-89 Ghana Living Standards Survey household questionnaire, the study examined the age of enrollment,…
Descriptors: Body Height, Child Health, Children, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedFentiman, Alicia; Hall, Andrew; Bundy, Donald – Comparative Education, 1999
A school census of three rural regions of Ghana examined enrollments, student age and gender, age at first enrollment, gender disparities among classes, dropouts, and the proportion of never-enrolled children. Focus group discussions with parents, teachers, and children highlighted major obstacles confronting education: child labor, health…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Health, Disadvantaged, Dropouts
