Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria

We use a year-long panel of time-use data from colonial Nigeria to show that labor complementarities and strategic concerns shaped the time-use decisions of African households. Using quantitative and ethnographic approaches, we show that health shocks imposed time costs that followed the gender divi...

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Main Authors: Arthi, V, Fenske, J
Format: Journal article
Jezik:English
Izdano: Elsevier 2015