Rights statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Children's Geographies on03/04/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14733285.2020.1747600
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| <mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 3/04/2020 |
|---|---|
| <mark>Journal</mark> | Children's Geographies |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Publication Status | E-pub ahead of print |
| Early online date | 3/04/20 |
| <mark>Original language</mark> | English |
We explore the temporal dimension of childhood, through time use of boys and girls in Ethiopia, focusing on the relationship between children's work and school attendance. We argue that children's time use reflects both current exigencies and more strategic future-orientated considerations, with work mainly serving the former, and education, the latter. We compare two cohorts of children aged 12 years from Young Lives longitudinal study, interviewed at two different points in time, 2006 and 2013. We examine the role of education aspirations, labour demand and structural factors such as household wealth and composition. Contrary to expectations, increased returns to work in rural areas have lowered boys' education aspirations and increased their school drop-out rates relative to girls'. Though time allocation is correlated with educational aspirations, we demonstrate that aspirations are not static, and change over childhood; locality and everyday exigencies interact with gender in reshaping children's aspirations and time-use.