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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 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
