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Gender, generations, and nonfarm participation, Volume 1

Author:	Emran, M. Shabe; Otsuka, Misuzu; Shilpi, Forhad;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 3087
Date Stored:	2003/07/26	Document Date:	2003/06/30
Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper	Language:	English
Major Sector:	(Historic)Sector not applicable	Report Number:	WPS3087
Sub Sectors:	(Historic)Sector not applicable	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Teaching and Learning; Economic Theory & Research; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Health Economics & Finance; Public Health Promotion; Decentralization
Volume No:	1

Summary: 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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