Child labor and agricultural shocks

Kathleen Beegle; Rajeev H. Dehejia; Roberta Gatti

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.05.003

Child labor and agricultural shocks

Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Roberta Gatti

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	80-96
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Development Economics
Volume	81
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.05.003
State	Published - Oct 2006

Keywords

Buffer stocks
Child labor
Consumption smoothing
Credit constraints

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Development
Economics and Econometrics

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