Child labor and agricultural shocks

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta
• 署名单位: Columbia University; The World Bank; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.05.003
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 80-96
• 关键词: child labor; buffer stocks; credit constraints; consumption smoothing

摘要

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household asset holdings mitigate the effects of these shocks. Using data from a household panel survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant. We investigate mechanisms that could account for these results, including buffer stocks and borrowing. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.