Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from Nigeria

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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in some contexts, while control over income is by all means what matters the most. The empirical methodology accounts for a number of empirical issues, including endogeneity and sample selection issues of female say on labor income, the multiequation and mixed process features of the child outcomes, as well as the fact that hours of work are left-censored. My findings are consistent with the overall idea that female say on income leads to better child outcomes, rather than female income earning per se. Nevertheless, the type of income under female control, child gender and child outcome matter.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-178-9
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2016/134

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other ; Analysis of Education ; Education and Inequality ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Subject: child education ; child labour ; female bargaining power ; female say on income ; Nigeria

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2016

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2016/178-9
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161517
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET