Table 1

Nonfarm participation of children conditional on Parent’s Employment Status (weighted mean): Nepal and Vietnam

	Probability of being Employed in Nonfarm Activities
	Nepal		Vietnam
	Daughters	Sons	Daughters	Sons
Mother’s employment
Farm	0.144	0.458	0.228	0.262
Nonfarm	0.591	0.653	0.694	0.638
Difference	0.447^***	0.195^***	0.436^***	0.374^***
Father’s employment
Farm	0.151	0.433	0.237	0.25
Nonfarm	0.268	0.652	0.525	0.582
Difference	0.117^***	0.219^***	0.288^***	0.332^***
Unconditional	0.168	0.47	0.291	0.306
Difference between daughters and sons		− 0 3^***		− 0.02
N	1,578	2,204	2,698	2,602
Correlations in nonfarm participation rates of
Husband-wife	0.337		0.348
Father-mother	0.47		0.498

↵* significant at 10 percent;
** significant at 5 percent;
↵*** significant at 1 percent
Source: Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS) 1995/96 and Vietnam Living Standard Survey (VLSS) 1992/93