Gender, Generations, and Nonfarm Participation

Emran, M. Shahe; Otsuka, Misuzu; Shilpi, Forhad

Gender, Generations, and Nonfarm Participation

2003

Emran, M. Shahe | Otsuka, Misuzu | Shilpi, Forhad

The authors present an empirical analysis of intergenerational links in nonfarm participation with a focus on gender effects. Using survey data from Nepal, the evidence shows that the mother exerts a strong influence on a daughter's employment choice. Having a mother in a nonfarm sector raises a daughter's probability of nonfarm participation by 200 percent. The effects are truly dramatic for skilled nonfarm jobs. Having a mother in a skilled job raises a daughter's probability by 1,200 percent. Having a father in a nonfarm sector, on the other hand, does not have any significant effect on a son's probability of nonfarm participation when the endogeneity of education and assets is corrected for by the two-stage conditional maximum likelihood approach. But a moderate positive intergenerational correlation between fathers and sons exists for skilled jobs.

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agriculture assets capacity building developed countries education employment fathers formal education human capital income income distribution learning let migration mothers occupational mobility parents productivity regression analysis urban areas

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World Bank, Washington, DC

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Costs of education; Mothers' education; Network externalities; Levels of education; Investment in education; Labor force; Benefit analysis; Education level; Women's advancement; Endogenous variables; Empirical analysis; Policy research; Girls; Skilled workers; Expected utility; Occupational skill levels agriculture; Permanent income; Maximum likelihood estimation; Externalities; Nonfarm sector; Estimation theory; Empirical studies; Inheritance; Exogenous variables; Level of education; Papers; Externality; Mobility; Women's employment; Gender issues; Conceptual framework; Occupational skill levels; Optimization; Multiplier effect; Schooling; Women's role in household; Utility function; Distance to school

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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3087http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/CC BY 3.0 IGO

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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 3087

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2003

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