Chiefly Patronage and Schooling

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20303266
AutoresYoshito Takasaki (0000-0002-4324-4668, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen58
Número12
Páginas2503-2525
Fecha de publicación2022-12-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220388.2022.2102898
OpenAlexW4291004608
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas41

In developing countries, indigenous chiefly systems can be a main driver of patronage, potentially hampering development. This paper explores how chiefly patronage shapes people’s incentives for schooling in Fiji. I develop a model to show how chiefly status can influence a household's child schooling decision, depending on whether the patronage operates in labor markets. I employ a triple-difference approach by combining the novel direct measures of chieftaincy from my original survey data with 1970 independence and 1987 coups as natural experiments, and gender. I show that indigenous chieftaincy interacted with British colonial rule to affect employment, and thus schooling, after independence for males but not females in chiefly networks. After this patronage weakened under post-coup reforms, males in the networks temporarily increased secondary schooling to compensate for their weakened advantage. The majority of male Fijians outside the networks were less encouraged to make schooling investments over time. As such, chiefly patronage persistently distorted male secondary schooling, thereby augmenting the outperformance of female education

Affect (linguistics) · Colonialism · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Incentive · Independence (probability theory) · Indigenous · Market economy · Natural experiment · Political science · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare