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100			_aBago, Jean-Louis and Dessy, Sylvain E. _942906
245			_aMotherhood and women’s self-employment: Theory and evidence from Nigeria
260			_aEconomic Development and Cultural Change
300			_a71(3), Apr, 2023: p.1003-1055
520			_aThe literature holds that having young children pushes women into self-employment to reconcile motherhood demands with their professional ambitions. However, knowledge gaps remain on how this effect differs by social context. Using nationally representative data from Nigeria, this paper demonstrates that motherhood has no statistically significant impact on women’s self-employment probabilities in a context where self-employment is predominantly informal and marriage creates extended family networks. Instead, after accounting for selection bias and the endogeneity of fertility and education decisions jointly, we find that lack of education drives up women’s self-employment probabilities in such a context. These findings are robust to alternative specifications. –Reproduced
773			_aEconomic Development and Cultural Change
906			_aWOMEN
942			_cAR