Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance : a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries
(2024) In Journal of Economic Inequality- Abstract
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... (More)
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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- Karlsson, Omar LU and De Neve, Jan Walter
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-01-27
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- Household work, Middle-income countries, School attendance, Washing machine
- in
- Journal of Economic Inequality
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85183432008
- ISSN
- 1569-1721
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: Karlsson was funded by Vetenskapsradet (2019-06396).
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- 0ebc1592-fb9c-4c83-811d-b297bb1ee181
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- 2024-02-15 04:00:02
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series = {{Journal of Economic Inequality}},
title = {{Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance : a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries}},
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doi = {{10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7}},
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