This paper attempts to understand why children often delay school enrolment despite the prediction of human capital …

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the … children through the caring preferences of their parents [Bourguignon (1999)] or has treated them as household public goods … [Blundell et al. (2005)]. This paper seeks to determine whether children of a certain age are decision-makers. We focus on the …