Impacts of disability on poverty: Quasi-experimental evidence from landmine amputees in Cambodia
Impacts of disability on poverty: Quasi-experimental evidence from landmine amputees in Cambodia
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残疾对贫困的影响：来自柬埔寨地雷截肢者的准实验证据
DOI：
10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.027
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Yoshito
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作者：
Takasaki;Yoshito
本文探讨了残疾对柬埔寨农村贫困的影响。我将自然实验和空间阻挡结合起来。首先，我关注成年人因地雷造成的截肢，这种截肢没有测量误差，而且是由外源性冲击引起的。其次，我根据村庄内的残疾状况进行了一项原始调查，这些村庄的人们同样容易遭受地雷事故。这种研究设计可以在较小的地理区域内进行匹配分析，将家庭形成和生育率等人口因素视为内生因素。这项准实验研究发现，截肢极大地减少了消费和收入，但并没有减少主观幸福感（即适应），从而增加了贫困并扩大了其规模。残疾引发了工作减少、收入低以及生产性资产和社会资本积累有限的恶性循环。这种工作兼资产渠道会对儿童教育和童工产生不利的代际影响。
This paper examines the impacts of disability on poverty in rural Cambodia. I combine a natural experiment and spatial blocking. First, I focus on amputation among adults due to landmines, which is free from measurement errors and the onset of which is an exogenous shock. Second, I conduct an original survey stratified by disability status within villages where people have shared the same local vulnerability to landmine accidents. This research design enables matching analysis within small geographic areas, treating demographic factors, such as household formation and fertility, as endogenous. This quasi-experimental study finds that amputation greatly reduces consumption and income, but not subjective well-being (i.e., adaptation), increasing poverty and augmenting its magnitude. Disability triggers a vicious circle of reduced work, low earnings, and limited accumulation of productive assets and social capital. This work-cum-asset channel leads to adverse intergenerational effects on child schooling and child labor.