Market Imperfections and Child Labor
Market Imperfections and Child Labor
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市场不完善和童工
DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.08.004
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Christelle Dumas
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作者：
Christelle Dumas
本文探讨了市场不完善与童工之间的关系。农村家庭模型表明，与其他家庭相反，当劳动力市场改善时，拥有中等土地的家庭可能会增加童工。我们估计了马达加斯加童工与各种市场不完善措施之间的关系，控制了大量的村庄特征和地区固定效应。平均而言，市场不完善会增加童工，但其影响因土地所有权而异（并且与模型一致）。市场的改善与童工的减少有关，这表明需要采取新政策来打击童工。
This article looks into the relationship between market imperfections and child labor. A rural household model shows that households with medium-sized plots may increase child labor when the labor market improves, contrary to the others. We estimate the relationship between child labor and various measures of market imperfections in Madagascar, controlling for a large set of village characteristics and district fixed effects. On average, market imperfections increase child labor but the effects are heterogenous by land ownership (and consistent with the model). An improvement of markets is associated to a decrease in child labor, which is suggestive of new policies to fight against child labor.