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Share the love: Parental bias, women empowerment and intergenerational mobility

E. Asiedu,Théophile T. Azomahou,Yoseph Getachew,Eleni Yitbarek

Published 2021 in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

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This paper introduces a collective household decision-making process into a gender-based overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents. Gender bias is modeled as part of parents’ psychic cost – a reflection of their pessimism, which leads to different mobility thresholds for daughters and sons. In this setting, the degree of women’s bargaining power is found to be crucial in defining the psychic cost and hence their children’s mobility. The framework is applied to the Nigerian General Household Survey panel data. We estimate a multinomial logit model with unobserved heterogeneity, using simulated maximum likelihood, to determine intergenerational mobility across primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. We find that children whose parents work in the secondary and tertiary sectors are more likely to work in the same sector. Greater intra-household female bargaining power leads to greater upward mobility for boys more than girls. Parental gender bias could thus be a driving force behind gender-based intergenerational persistence. The paper introduces gender effects into intergenerational occupational mobility (hereafter IG mobility). 1 In the model, IG mobility is determined by the education or training that individuals receive during childhood. Parental investment in children’s education is a function of parental characteristics such as their and their attitude towards different gender of their children and their bargaining power, differences between the on the they The on models of

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