Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance

• Verfasst von: Karlsson, Omar [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: De Neve, Jan-Walter [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance
• Titelzusatz: a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries
• Verf.angabe: Omar Karlsson, Jan-Walter De Neve
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 27 January 2024
• Umfang: 21 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 07.10.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of economic inequality
• Ort Quelle: New York : Springer US, 2003
• Jahr Quelle: 2024
• Band/Heft Quelle: 22(2024), 3 vom: Sept., Seite 735-755
• ISSN Quelle: 1573-8701
• DOI: doi:10.1007/s10888-023-09612-7
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Household work
• Sach-SW: Middle-income countries
• Sach-SW: School attendance
• Sach-SW: Washing machine
• Form-SW: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
• K10plus-PPN: 1904911420

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 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.