Human Capital and Development in Kenya: Health, Education and Labor Income Profiles, 1994 and 2005

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1 Human Capital and Development in Kenya: Health, Education and Labor Income Profiles, 1994 and 2005 Moses Muriithi Reuben Mutegi Germano Mwabu University of Nairobi, Kenya Presented at NTA Conference, Peking University, Beijing, China 10 th 15 th November 2014

Mutegi Germano Mwabu University of Nairobi, Kenya Presented at

2 Introduction Long Term National Plan for Kenya, KENYA _VISION_2030, recognizes the role of human capital in development Health and education are identified as vital ends in themselves and as means of national development

development Health and education are identified as

3 But Plan lacks information on... Expenditure on health and education services by age and gender Productivity of human capital or its return, by age and gender Human capital created within households or in household enterprises, especially by women

gender Productivity of human capital or its return, by age

4 This information is needed To design policies that would promote: Human capital formation (health and education) by age Social protection by gender Development of tools to count human capital produced at home and in family enterprises

age Social protection by gender Development of tools to

5 Current education policies Free primary education Subsidised secondary education Parallel (unsubsidized) degree programs at all universities Higher Education Loan Board

6 Education The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) offers loans to students in both public and private universities Licensing of private schools created unintended expansion in private primary schools due to (a) low quality education offered in free public schools and (b) desire to get subsidies granted by National Treasury University Charters have encouraged rapid expansion of universities

schools due to (a) low quality education offered in free public schools and (b) desire to get

7 Education: Major policy gaps There are no data to show how policies influence schooling and spending at different ages or by gender Policies ignore time used at home or in household enterprises, especially by women, to support or complement formal schooling [Same for the health sector] Household budget and time use surveys needed

home or in household enterprises, especially by women, to support or complement

8 Health policies Free maternity care Free treatment of children free anti retrovirus therapy Subsidized bed nets Free vaccinations

9 Improving social policies: NTA & NTTA evidence needed NTA and NTTA profiles can reveal variations in health and education expenditures by age, gender, region and year of survey data They can suggest (or be used to consider) ways to improve social policies Use 1994 and 2005/06 household surveys to approximate policy effects

and year of survey data They can suggest (or be used to consider) ways to

10 Education, health and labor income profiles for Kenya, 1994 and Public education consumption 2005 PRIMARY SECONDARY HIGHER TOTAL Primary total public education Secondary Higher Kenya Shillings 1, , , , Age 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 k s 1,500 h 1, Age

Higher Kenya Shillings 1,600.00 1,400.00 1,200.00 1,000.00 800.00 600.00 400.00 200.

11 Private education consumption ksh K S H Age age

6000 4000 100 2000 50 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60

12 Total public and private education consumption Total public Total private Total public education consumption 3, Total private education consumption 12, , , , , Ksh 1, Ksh 6, , , , Age Age

13 Health profiles, 1994

14 Health profiles, 2005

15 Per capita health consumption, 1994 and percapita health 2005 per capita health

1 0 percapita health 2005 per capita health

16 Labor Income Profile, 1994 and labory1994 labory

17 NTTA profiles Can help design better social policies around work, equity and human rights

18 Unpaid family workers number of people male female age

19 Time use in household enterprises, by gender Home enterprise management, unpaid work Hours per day Enterprise, male Enterprise, male (smoothed) Enterprise, female Enterprise, female (smoothed) Age

20 Thank you

21 Notes Time use analysis is performed for both market and non market economies For the market economy NTA frame work is used The CWW methodology disaggregates NTA by gender and counts goods and services excluded from NTA

22 Notes For non market services, unpaid household services are included in the NTA framework NTTA combines data from time use and wage surveys to measure time men and women spend in unpaid production NTTA is linked to gender because women s work, especially, is not captured in NTA

23 Notes Steps in doing NTTA: Identify available time use survey by age Identify time spent on household work Find appropriate wages to impute value Construct NTTA for men and women

24 Examples of NTTA graphs: Garden and animal care (unpaid) h o u r s male femal age

25 Total unpaid work Hours per day Farmtotal, male Farmtotal, male (smoothed) Farmtotal, female Farmtotal, female (smoothed) Age

26 Vision identifies human capital development as a key foundation for national socio economic transformation Since 1994, several policy interventions have aimed at promoting human capital development, especially in the areas of education and health

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