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Gender and Competition between Economic or Non‐economic Labor and Schooling: Evidence from EPAM Mali
Author(s) -
KoissyKpein Sandrine
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
african development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-8268
pISSN - 1017-6772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00308.x
Subject(s) - economics , competition (biology) , socialization , interdependence , differential (mechanical device) , estimation , gender bias , labour economics , demographic economics , socioeconomic status , work (physics) , survey data collection , empirical evidence , sociology , psychology , mechanical engineering , ecology , social science , social psychology , population , statistics , demography , mathematics , management , philosophy , epistemology , engineering , biology , aerospace engineering
: We use the Understanding Children's Work (UCW) definition of child labor and data from the Mali Permanent Household Survey to highlight the gender difference in the competition between economic or non‐economic labor and schooling. A quadri‐variate Probit estimation allows to account for the interdependency between school and various kinds of labor: household chores (HHC), market‐oriented (MO) activities and non‐market‐oriented (NMO) activities. Empirical results provide interesting findings, including differential gender socialization according to the gender of the offspring, gender bias in repartition of tasks and time, and competition between labor activities and schooling.