Endnotes

¹ Senior Research Fellow, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (aorbeta@pids.gov.ph). This paper was written while the author was a Visiting Researcher at the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo. Opinions expressed here are solely of the author does not necessarily reflects the view or policies of the Asian Development Bank Institute nor of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. This paper has benefited from the comments of John Weiss, Haider Khan, and Peter McCawley. Research assistance of Janet Cuenca, Keiko Sasaki, Mihoko Saito, Reiko Nishiura and Nami Sampei are gratefully acknowledged. All errors, however, are solely the responsibility of the author.

² See Orbeta (2000) for a discussion on this.

³ We use ivreg2 Stata routine (Baum et al. 2003) to test for the endogeneity.

⁴ Two of the previous works of the author on the issue used individual outcome variables (Alba and Orbeta 1999, and Orbeta 2000).

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1. grace quimpan
   (posted 26 August 2005 / 02:10:47 PM)
   
   Yes your right! but how will they will go to school if their parents has no job to afford their school finances. Some parents are working but the salary they get is not enough even for their food.