abstract: 'In this paper we analyse the indirect effects of the boom in

  horticultural exports in Senegal on child schooling. The export boom has

  caused a dramatic increase in female off-farm wage employment, which led

  to increased female bargaining power in the household. We investigate

  the causal effect of female wage income on primary school enrolment. We

  develop a collective household model with endogenous bargaining power to

  show that, if women have higher preferences for schooling than men, the

  impact of female wage income on school enrolment will be the result of a

  positive income effect, a negative labour substitution effect and a

  positive empowerment effect. We address the question empirically using

  original household survey data from Senegal. We use different

  econometric techniques and show that female off-farm wage income has a

  positive effect on primary school enrolment for both boys and girls, and

  that female empowerment is specifically important for the schooling of

  girls. Our results imply that the horticultural export boom in Senegal

  has indirectly contributed to the second and third Millennium

  Development Goals of universal primary education and elimination of

  gender disparities in primary education. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All

  rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Maertens, M (Corresponding Author), GEO Inst, Div Bioecon, Celestijnenlaan
  200E Box 2411, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium.

  Maertens, Miet; Verhofstadt, Ellen, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Earth \& Environm
  Sci, Div Bioecon, Louvain, Belgium.'
author: Maertens, Miet and Verhofstadt, Ellen
author-email: Miet.Maertens@ees.kuleuven.be
author_list:
- family: Maertens
  given: Miet
- family: Verhofstadt
  given: Ellen
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.07.006
eissn: 1873-5657
files: []
issn: 0306-9192
journal: FOOD POLICY
keywords: 'Globalisation; Female labour market participation; Female empowerment;

  Collective household model; Primary school enrolment; Gender disparity

  in schooling'
keywords-plus: 'DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; PARENTAL EDUCATION; GENDER; STANDARDS; IMPACT;

  RESOURCES; POVERTY; TRADE; POWER; LABOR'
language: English
month: DEC
number-of-cited-references: '55'
orcid-numbers: Maertens, Miet/0000-0001-7245-0375
pages: 118-131
papis_id: 9627acdc4519bbc208e146d7e2a521b4
ref: Maertens2013horticulturalexports
researcherid-numbers: Maertens, Miet/A-5509-2013
times-cited: '34'
title: 'Horticultural exports, female wage employment and primary school enrolment:
  Theory and evidence from Senegal'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000329414100012
usage-count-last-180-days: '4'
usage-count-since-2013: '48'
volume: '43'
web-of-science-categories: 'Agricultural Economics \& Policy; Economics; Food Science
  \& Technology;

  Nutrition \& Dietetics'
year: '2013'