Contribution des inobservables aux disparités de genre dans la scolarisation et le travail des enfants au Mali

Contribution of unobservables to gender disparities in schooling and child labor in Mali

Moussa Keita

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Abstract: This study attempts to extend reflections on gender disparities in children's time allocation based on household survey data in Mali. We test the gender disparities in schooling and child labor using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The objective is to identify the contributions of unobservable factors to the differences between girls and boys. Our results confirm the idea that most of the differences between the two groups comes from unobservable factors. We find, for example, that 92% of the difference in schooling remains unexplained based on observable characteristics. We also find evidence of a strong polarization of work by gender. Boys are significantly more oriented toward economic activities (1 hour per day girls) while girls are significantly more oriented toward non-economic activities (about 2.5 hours per day more than boys).

Keywords: Scolarisation; travail des enfants; disparités de genre / Schooling; child labor; gender disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 D13 I21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07-24
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