气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.09.006
	Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
	Randell H.; Gray C.
发表日期	2016
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	41
英文摘要	This paper examines the effects of climate variability on schooling outcomes in rural Ethiopia. Investments in education serve as an important pathway out of poverty, yet reduced agricultural productivity due to droughts or temperature shocks may affect educational attainment if children receive poorer nutrition during early childhood, are required to participate in household income generation during schooling ages, or if households can no longer pay for school-related expenses. We link longitudinal socioeconomic, demographic, and schooling data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey to high-resolution gridded climate data to measure exposure to temperature and precipitation relative to historical norms. We then estimate a set of multivariate regression models to understand how climate variability impacts grade attainment and school enrollment. Results indicate that early life climatic conditions – namely milder temperatures during all seasons and greater rainfall during the summer agricultural season – are associated with an increased likelihood of a child having completed any education. In addition, greater summer rainfall during both early life and school ages is associated with having completed any schooling as well as with attending school at the time of the survey. These findings suggest that future climate change may reduce children's school participation in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, slowing progress toward human development goals and poverty alleviation. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change; Climate variability; Educational attainment; Ethiopia; Schooling
学科领域	agricultural production; climate change; climate variation; education; educational attainment; household income; household survey; investment; nature-society relations; numerical model; nutrition; poverty alleviation; rural area; socioeconomic conditions; Ethiopia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	agricultural production; climate change; climate variation; education; educational attainment; household income; household survey; investment; nature-society relations; numerical model; nutrition; poverty alleviation; rural area; socioeconomic conditions; Ethiopia
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117316
作者单位	National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401, United States; Department of Geography, 308 Carolina Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Box 3220, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Randell H.,Gray C.. Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia[J],2016,41.
APA	Randell H.,&Gray C..(2016).Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia.Global Environmental Change,41.
MLA	Randell H.,et al."Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia".Global Environmental Change 41(2016).