TY - JOUR
T1 - Girls' schooling choices and home production
T2 - evidence from Pakistan
AU - Reis, Hugo
N1 - Funding Information:
The helpful and constructive comments of the three anonymous referees and of the Associate Editor, Christopher Flinn, as well of those of Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro, Mónica Costa Dias, and Petra Todd are gratefully acknowledged. The article has also benefited from insightful comments made by Lars Nesheim, Michael Keane, Aureo de Paula, Pierre‐André Chiappori, Jishnu Das, Pat Kehoe, Dan Black, Paulo Rodrigues, Sankar Mukhopadhyay, and participants at the IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists and at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference. The excellent research assistance by Marta Lopes and the support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, World Bank, University College London, and Banco de Portugal is also acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© (2020) by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - The article develops and estimates a dynamic structural model of girls' school-going decisions and mother's labor market participation. It seeks to determine the causes of low school participation and to evaluate alternative public policies. The model incorporates mother's education, school availability, the productivity of the girl when engaged in household production, and the potential trade-off between mother's and daughter's housework decisions. Our findings suggest that school construction is the most cost-effective program. When using monetary incentives, our results highlight the effectiveness of conditionality, as opposed to unconditional transfers, and the existence of a trade-off between maternal employment and daughter's schooling.
AB - The article develops and estimates a dynamic structural model of girls' school-going decisions and mother's labor market participation. It seeks to determine the causes of low school participation and to evaluate alternative public policies. The model incorporates mother's education, school availability, the productivity of the girl when engaged in household production, and the potential trade-off between mother's and daughter's housework decisions. Our findings suggest that school construction is the most cost-effective program. When using monetary incentives, our results highlight the effectiveness of conditionality, as opposed to unconditional transfers, and the existence of a trade-off between maternal employment and daughter's schooling.
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U2 - 10.1111/iere.12440
DO - 10.1111/iere.12440
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082335499
SN - 0020-6598
VL - 61
SP - 783
EP - 819
JO - International Economic Review
JF - International Economic Review
IS - 2
ER -