Child Disability and Mothers' Labour Market Participation in Cameroon

Arlette Simo Fotso ()
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Arlette Simo Fotso: University Cheikh Anta Diop

Journal of African Development, 2017, vol. 19, issue 1, 27-60

Abstract: This study seeks to evaluate the effect of a child's disability on the mothers' labour market participation using Cameroon 2011 Demographic and Health Survey- National Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (EDS-MICS), capturing heterogeneity according to mother's level of education. In order to allow for endogeneity bias and the fact that a disability may impose various types of constraints on a family, two disability indicators were constructed. These distinguish between children with a healthcare-cost-intensive disability and those with a time-intensive one. The results obtained show that having a child whose disability requires high healthcare expenditures increases the probability that a non-graduated mother will be employed by 12%, and that she will work full-year by 3% and seasonally by 6%. Where the child's disability imposes time constraints, the probability of working all the year for the non-graduated mother is reduced by 14%. No significant effect is found for graduated mothers. It is important, therefore, that policymakers take account of the variety of costs imposed by a child's disability and heterogeneous effects according to mother's level of education.

Keywords: Disability; child; cost of illness; household production model; education; labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J1 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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