Child farm labor: The wealth paradox
Child farm labor: The wealth paradox
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DOI：
10.1093/wber/lhg017
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Heady, C
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作者：
Bhalotra, S;Heady, C
这篇文章的动机是显着的观察，土地丰富的家庭的孩子往往比土地贫困的家庭的孩子更有可能在工作。发展中经济体的绝大多数童工从事农业工作，主要是在其家庭经营的农场上。土地是农业社会最重要的财富储备，但土地的分配通常非常不平等。这些事实挑战了童工来自最贫困家庭的普遍假设。本文认为，这一明显的悖论可以用劳动力和土地市场的失灵来解释。信贷市场失灵将削弱这一悖论的力量。这些影响的模型和估计获得的调查数据从农村巴基斯坦和加纳。主要的结果是，在这两个国家的女孩的财富悖论持续存在，而男孩的其他协变量的条件后消失。
This article is motivated by the remarkable observation that children of land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households. The vast majority of working children in developing economies are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by their families. Land is the most important store of wealth in agrarian societies, and it is typically distributed very unequally. These facts challenge the common presumption that child labor emerges from the poorest households. This article suggests that this apparent paradox can be explained by failures of the markets for labor and land. Credit market failure will tend to weaken the force of this paradox. These effects are modeled and estimates obtained using survey data from rural Pakistan and Ghana. The main result is that the wealth paradox persists for girls in both countries, whereas for boys it disappears after conditioning on other covariates.