Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance: a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries
Excessive work among adolescents may compromise educational development. Without home appliances, household work can take over 50 h a week and an additional 30 h when an infant is present. School-aged girls are often tasked with doing laundry, which is time-consuming and inflexible without a washing...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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27 January 2024
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Journal of economic inequality
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 735-755 |
| ISSN: | 1573-8701 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7 
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| Author Notes: | Omar Karlsson, Jan-Walter De Neve |
| Summary: | Excessive work among adolescents may compromise educational development. Without home appliances, household work can take over 50 h a week and an additional 30 h when an infant is present. School-aged girls are often tasked with doing laundry, which is time-consuming and inflexible without a washing machine. We determined the association between washing machine ownership and school attendance among adolescents ages 10-19 years in 19 middle-income countries between 2000 and 2021 (N = 1,622,514). We controlled for socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, all neighborhood-level factors, and examined differences by sex, age, household wealth, and period. No relationship between washing machine ownership and school attendance was found in most countries: However, there was a substantial association for girls in Türkiye and a small to moderate association for girls in Egypt and Albania. In Türkiye, for example, girls living in households with a washing machine had 28% (95% CI 19, 37) greater school attendance compared to girls living in households which did not. No association was observed for boys. The results suggest that household ownership of a washing machine does generally not improve school attendance among girls, except possibly in specific contexts. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 07.10.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1573-8701 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7 |