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| Title: | | School attendance of children and the work of mothers: a joint multilevel model for India  |
| Authors: | | Francavilla, Francesca Giannelli, Gianna Claudia Grilli, Leonardo |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 3531 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate and poor mothers with unskilled or unemployed partners have a high probability of working, points to the need for decent labour market opportunities for females. An implication of our findings is that any policy aiming both at enhancing women´s empowerment through labour and increasing children´s welfare should also target improvements in women´s conditions in the labour market. |
| Subjects: | | Children´s schooling women´s work household allocation of time random effects India |
| JEL: | | J13 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20080609120 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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