Teen Fertility and Female Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E.; Villa, Kira

doi:10.1093/jae/ejy024

Cited by 14 publications

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“…The negative association between female enrolment in education and early female fertility is consistent with micro-level studies from a variety of SSA countries that present causal evidence regarding the negative impact of early female education on early female fertility (Duflo et al 2015;Keats 2018;Osili and Long 2008;Ozier 2018). Herrera et al (2019) provide complementary evidence that first births occurring during adolescence increase the probability of employment, which is partially mediated through school dropout, with the quality of employment being low.…”

Section: Female Labour Supply and Fertilitysupporting

confidence: 82%

Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysis

Backhaus¹,

Loichinger²

2021

WIDER Working Paper

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Female labour force participation rates have stagnated in sub-Saharan Africa since the turn of the millennium. This paper aims to explain this aggregate pattern by decomposing it into the labour supply behaviour of different birth cohorts and age groups. Using representative and repeated census data from a heterogeneous sample of sub-Saharan African countries, we show that declining female labour supply at early working age is explained by increasing school attendance among young female cohorts. Taking this heterogeneity into account, we find a positive association between female labour force participation and female educational attainment across the working age. Female education is further positively related to female employment in the non-primary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender gap in labour supply. The higher investments in education by younger female cohorts, together with the demographics of sub-Saharan African countries, have implications for a potentially arising ‘demographic dividend’.

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Section: Female Labour Supply and Fertilitysupporting

confidence: 82%

Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysis

Backhaus¹,

Loichinger²

2021

WIDER Working Paper

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“…Women who have children at a young age face additional time constraint, impairing their human capital formation, which further reduces their competitiveness in the labor market. Herrera et al (2016) find that women whose first birth occurred during adolescence largely find work in low-quality informal jobs. Figure 8 shows that in sub-Saharan African countries, unattended family planning needs are associated with more women working in the informal sector relative to men.…”

Section: B Social Norms and Lack Of Family Planning Curtail Women's Competitivenessmentioning

confidence: 85%

Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand

Malta¹,

Kolovich²,

Martinez³

et al. 2019

IMF Working Papers

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In sub-Saharan Africa women work relatively more in the informal sector than men. Many factors could explain this difference, including women's lower education levels, legal barriers, social norms and demographic characteristics. Cross-country comparisons indicate strong associations between gender gaps and higher female informality. This paper uses microdata from Senegal to assess the probability of a worker being informal, and our main findings are: (i) in urban areas, being a woman increases this probability by 8.5 percent; (ii) education is usually more relevant for women; (iii) having kids reduces men's probability of being informal but increases women's.

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“…At this point, we were able to relate the overall performance level of Italian MOCs with their ownership structure, using the multinomial ordinal probabilistic regression (multinomial ordered probit model; Bhojraj & Sengupta, 2003; García‐Goñi, Maroto, & Rubalcaba, 2007; Herrera, Sahn, & Villa, 2019).…”

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The effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in urban waste management: An explicatory empirical analysis of Italian municipal corporations

2020

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This paper investigates the effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in Italian municipally owned corporations (MOCs) dealing with urban waste management, trying to understand if multiple ownership can generate better performance compared to single ownership and if the presence of private partners could be crucial in this. The research question is answered by analyzing 41 MOCs of the largest Italian cities operating in urban waste management. In this specific sector, public administrations have tried to improve their offer in terms of sustainable development, environmental policy, and efficiency. The paper covers the Italian case study, where urban waste production per capita is higher than the European average figure. The waste cycle management service is operated in Italy at local level through totally publicly owned companies (monoadministration or multiadministration), mixed (public–private) companies, or via a full externalization achieved by means of public tenders. Through a multinomial ordered probit panel, we show that MOCs with multiple owners perform better than those having a single owner and perform much better with the presence of a private partner, confirming those academic findings according to which collaborative arrangements can increase efficiency, do better than public sector bureaucracy, and lower the costs of service provision. The results of this paper can be used by academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike. To the best of our knowledge, this is the only study that applies this perspective to the analysis of the current international waste management scenario with relation to MOCs having multiple ownerships.

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Teen Fertility and Female Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Madagascar

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysis

Female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa: A cohort analysis

Informality and Gender Gaps Going Hand in Hand

The effect of ownership on sustainable development and environmental policy in urban waste management: An explicatory empirical analysis of Italian municipal corporations

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