Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria
| dc.creator | Aromolaran, Adebayo B. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T14:07:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:01:24Z | |
| dc.description | Economists have argued that increasing female schooling positively influences the labor supply of married women by inducing a faster rise in market productivity relative to non-market productivity. I use the Nigerian Labor Force Survey to investigate how own and husband's schooling affect women's labor market participation. I find that additional years of postsecondary education increases wage market participation probability by as much as 15.2%. A marginal increase in primary schooling has no effect on probability of wage employment, but could enhance participation rates in self-employment by about 5.40%. These effects are likely to be stronger when a woman is married to a more educated spouse. The results suggest that primary education is more productive in non-wage work relative to wage work, while postsecondary education is more productive in wage work. Finally, I find evidence suggesting that non-market work may not be a normal good for married women in Nigeria. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.28451 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28451/files/dp040879.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28451 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/543625 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/28451 | |
| dc.title | Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria | |
| dc.type | Text |