Child labor and schooling responses to anticipated income in South Africa
Child labor and schooling responses to anticipated income in South Africa
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.05.001
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Edmonds, Eric V.
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作者：
Edmonds, Eric V.
展望未来，不受约束的家庭会考虑其永久收入并权衡各种潜在活动中儿童时间的相对回报，从而做出童工和学校教育决定。在家庭可以用永久收入借款的情况下，预期收入变化的时间不应影响童工和学校教育。然而，这项研究记录了当南非黑人家庭有资格获得完全可预期的社会养老金收入时，入学率大幅增加，工作总时间下降。作为一种解释，这些数据与黑人老年男性的流动性限制最为一致，这迫使农村家庭男孩接受的教育少于他们在没有限制的情况下选择的学校教育，这可能是因为教育成本。 (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V.保留所有权利。
Forward looking, unconstrained households make child labor and schooling decisions considering their permanent income and weighing the relative returns to child time in various potential activities. The timing of anticipated changes in income should have no effect on child labor and schooling in a setting where households can borrow against permanent income. However, this study documents large increases in schooling attendance and declines in total hours worked when black South African families become eligible for fully anticipatable social pension income. As an explanation, the data are most consistent with liquidity constraints for black elder males forcing rural families into less schooling for boys than they would choose absent the constraint, perhaps because of schooling costs. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All fights reserved.