Female labour force participation and child education in India : the effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Farzana Afridi; Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay; Soham Sahoo
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the NREGS, we find that greater participation of mothers in the program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is over and above any income effect induced by the scheme and is robust to concerns about endogeneity of labour force participation and differences in economic trends between districts. We provide evidence which suggests that the mechanism through which children's educational outcomes improve is empowerment of mothers resulting from better labour market opportunities for females. -- labour ; education ; gender ; bargaining
Year of publication: |
2012
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Authors: | Afridi, Farzana ; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop ; Sahoo, Soham |
Publisher: |
Bonn : IZA |
Subject: | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Arbeitsmarktpolitik | Labour market policy | Geschlecht | Gender | Ländlicher Arbeitsmarkt | Rural labour market | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Kinder | Children | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Schätzung | Estimation | Indien | India |
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Extent: | Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 53 S., 1,04 MB) graph. Darst. |
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Series: | Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 6593 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/62553 [Handle] |
Classification: | I21 - Analysis of Education ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; J16 - Economics of Gender |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548202