Abstract
Complementary to the existing literature that schooling in rural area can be affected by the agricultural temporal shocks, this paper investigates whether a more fundamental development in agriculture - an improvement in the agricultural land right - can have an impact on rural schooling outcomes. By exploiting the partial land right entitlement that varies over time and across provinces in Thailand, and with the use of the instrumental variables, this paper finds that a one standard deviation increase in the share of land under the more secure land right leads to an increase in female pre-primary school enrollment of approximately 6% of the mean number of girls enrolling in pre-primary schools over the period of study. The effect is pronounced in rural but not in urban areas. In addition, among the rural households, expenditure on education increases by about 2% of the overall non-food consumption expenditure.
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