TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Reis, Hugo
        TI  - Girls' Schooling Choices and Home Production: Evidence from Pakistan
        PY  - 2015/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9562
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9562
        AB  - The paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model that allows for the interrelations between girls' schooling and mothers' labor market participation decision, in a rural area of Pakistan where drop-out rates are considerably high. The model incorporates home production, which is critical for understanding the behavior of mothers when deciding girls' schooling. Results suggest that monetary incentives are a good mechanism to increase girls' school enrollment, but not the most cost effective. The impact of the conditional cash transfer program on secondary school enrollment rate was only one third of the impact of the school building program. Regarding welfare, the difference between schemes is smaller. Results also highlight the effectiveness of the role of conditionality.
        KW  - discrete choice dynamic programming models
KW  - structural model
KW  - development economics
KW  - home production
KW  - girls' schooling
        ER  -