Does having children affect women’s entrepreneurship decision? Evidence from Nigeria

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dc.article.end-page860en_ZA
dc.article.start-page844en_ZA
dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/S11150-019-09453-2en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAjefu, Joseph Boniface
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-09T14:01:57Z
dc.date.available2020-07-09T14:01:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-16
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the impact of fertility on women’s entrepreneurship decision in Nigeria, using the 2008 and 2013 cross-sectional Demographic Health Surveys data. In order to mitigate the potential endogeneity associated with fertility decision, the study explores an exogenous variation in family size using twin births in an instrumental variable (IV) analysis. Both the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) estimate show that having children is positively associated with women’s entrepreneurship decision, and there are heterogeneous effects across the subsamples by women’s age. The results of this study are robust to using the number of children younger than age five in the home as an alternative definition of fertility.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianTT2020en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationAjefu, J.B. Does having children affect women’s entrepreneurship decision? Evidence from Nigeria. Rev Econ Household 17, 843–860 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-019-09453-2
dc.identifier.issnISSN: 1569-5239
dc.identifier.issnESSN: 1573-7152
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29250
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-019-09453-2en_ZA
dc.journal.titleDoes having children affect women’s entrepreneurship decision? Evidence from Nigeriaen_ZA
dc.journal.volume17en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rights© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019en_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Economics and Financeen_ZA
dc.subjectChildren en_ZA
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectEntreprenuership
dc.subjectNigeria
dc.titleDoes having children affect women’s entrepreneurship decision? Evidence from Nigeriaen_ZA
dc.title.alternativeReview of Economics of the Household volumeen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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