Analysing household expenditure on education in Ghana: An update
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Date
2023
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Elsevier
Abstract
The study analysed household-level data derived from the latest GLSS VII collected as part
of a 2016-2017 national survey in Ghana and focused on examining households' annual
expenditure on education. The driving force behind this study was the lack of an empirical
analysis of household spending on education using this most recent data. The study results
are that an increase in annual household income of 100 cedis per year increases actual
household expenditure on education by about 26 cedis. Households in the Savannah Zones in
Ghana show positive annual expenditure on education, while the Forest and Accra Zones
show negative correlations with education expenditure. The positive education budgets of
rural households have the potential to bridge an unequal society, as rural students' access to
education leads to greater inequality in the production of specialized human capital in Ghana
and this is a significant finding. And policy-makers in Ghana must take pragmatic steps to
drastically reduce the 36 percent of households that do not spend on education as a public
education policy measure to achieve SDG4.
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Annual, SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education, expenditure, Ghana, household.
Citation
Addai, I. (2023). Analysing household expenditure on education in Ghana: An update. Available at SSRN 4339145.