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Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Egypt: Effect of Power Distribution within the Household on Child Work and Schooling

In: Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies

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  • Rania Roushdy
  • Soiliou Daw Namoro

Abstract

This study uses data from the 2006 Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey to gauge and compare the effects on children's education and children's working hours of parent-specific characteristics, namely the educational attainment of parents and the contributions made by the mother and the father to their marriage costs. The empirical model used for this purpose is a reduced-form regression model inspired by the collective rationality model of household decision making. The analysis suggests that mothers' and fathers' characteristics have differential effects on children's education and work. The effects of parents' educational attainment are more nuanced. The findings are consistent with the assumption that the mother's and the father's relative decision making powers differently affect children's welfare, especially children's educational attainment.

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  • Rania Roushdy & Soiliou Daw Namoro, 2016. "Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Egypt: Effect of Power Distribution within the Household on Child Work and Schooling," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Nadereh Chamlou & Massoud Karshenas (ed.), Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies, chapter 4, pages 87-106, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781783267347_0004
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    1. Nadia Diamond-Smith & David Bishai & Omaima El Gibaly, 2015. "Inter-generational co-residence and women's work and leisure time in Egypt," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 33(31), pages 909-938.

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