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The overall sample (including employed workers) yields a higher implied flow value of time ($\tilde{z} = 0.64, s.e. = 0.03$) compared to the unemployed sample ($\tilde{z} = 0.58, s.e. = 0.04$), reflecting inter-job hours substitution costs among employed applicants.
Exposure to business process outsourcing recruitment caused a 5.1 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of being married (p < 0.05) and a 5.7 percentage point reduction in having given birth (p < 0.05), alongside a 0.35 decline in lifetime desired fertility (p < 0.01) [15, 18-20].
Broad expansion in low-skill formal export manufacturing jobs substantially raised the probability of quitting upper secondary school for youth on the dropout margin at age 16.
Scheduling sessions outside normal class hours resulted in a 70.0% zero-attendance rate for cognitive behavioral therapy workshops and a 97.0% zero-attendance rate for supplementary mathematics tutoring.
Accounting for commuting costs (+0.06), foregone welfare benefits (+0.06), and childcare expenses elevates the baseline non-work value ($\tilde{z} = 0.58$) to a comprehensive total opportunity cost parameter of $z = 0.72$ under monopsony assumptions, or $z = 0.87$ under Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides assumptions [20-22, 26].
Short-term labor earnings in the treatment group fell by 10,494 FCFA/month (-25%, p < 0.001) due to reductions in wage work (-6,414 FCFA) and self-employment (-6,381 FCFA). The monthly program stipend of 10,213 FCFA fully offset these forgone earnings, resulting in zero net change in total short-term income.