Counting women's labour: A reanalysis of children's net production using Cain's data from a Bangladeshi village
Counting women's labour: A reanalysis of children's net production using Cain's data from a Bangladeshi village
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10.1080/00324720701788590
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发表时间：
2008-01-01
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2.4
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Kramer, Karen L.
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Robinson, Rachel Sullivan;Lee, Ronald D.;Kramer, Karen L.
儿童对父母家庭的经济贡献长期以来一直引起人口学家的兴趣，因为它有可能影响生育率水平。然而，在工业化前的经济中，评估童工的劳动价值本身就很困难。妇女的劳动也是如此，这是任何净生产分析的关键组成部分。在这里，我们使用Mead Cain的开创性研究（人口与发展评论3(3):201- 227,1977）来说明这些观点，该研究涉及孟加拉国一个村庄儿童的经济贡献。我们将凯恩关于无地妇女和男子工作时间的数据与其他工业化前环境中每小时工作效率的数据结合起来（穆勒，人口与发展：选择性干预的研究）。巴尔的摩，马里兰州：约翰霍普金斯大学出版社，第98-153,1976；克莱默，博士论文，新墨西哥大学人类学系，1998年)。如果把妇女的劳动算在内，我们发现孟加拉国儿童在10岁（女孩）或11岁（男孩）时开始生产与消费一样多的产品。尽管做出了这些富有成效的贡献，但直到20岁出头，女性和男性都不会为他们的累积消费“买单”。我们相信我们的方法可以有效地应用于其他情况。
The economic contribution of children to their parents' households has long interested demographers because of its potential to influence fertility levels. Valuing children's labour in pre-industrial economies, however, is inherently difficult. The same is true of women's labour, a crucial component of any analysis of net production. Here we use Mead Cain's seminal study (Population and Development Review 3(3): 201-227, 1977) of children's economic contributions in a Bangladeshi village to illustrate these points. We combine Cain's data on landless women's and men's hours of work with data on the efficiency per hour of work from other pre-industrial settings (Mueller, Population and Development: The Search for Selective Interventions. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 98-153, 1976; Kramer, Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1998). When women's labour is incorporated, we find that the Bangladeshi children begin to produce as much as they consume by ages 10 (girls) or 11 (boys). Despite these productive contributions, neither women nor men 'pay' for their cumulative consumption until their early 20s. We believe our methods could be usefully applied in other contexts.