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dc.contributor.authorDeSilva, Sanjayaen
dc.contributor.authorBin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehraben
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-03-
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-12T14:22:29Z-
dc.date.available2012-04-12T14:22:29Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57070-
dc.description.abstractUsing data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and cross-productivity effects in the household allow Filipino women to reap substantial benefits from schooling regardless of whether they enter the labor market. Our estimates reveal that the return to schooling for women is approximately 20 percent in both labor and marriage markets. In comparison, men experience a 12 percent return to schooling in the labor market. By using birth order, sibship size, percent of male siblings, and parental education as instruments, we correct for a significant downward bias that is caused by the endogeneity of schooling attainment.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLevy Economics Institute of Bard College |cAnnandale-on-Hudson, NYen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x701en
dc.subject.jelI21en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelO15en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordreturns to educationen
dc.subject.keywordgenderen
dc.subject.keywordmarriageen
dc.subject.keywordPhilippinesen
dc.titleWomen, schooling, and marriage in rural Philippines-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn682081914en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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