The Effects of Fair Trade on Child Labor

在项目的第二年，我完成了下面描述的工作。首先，我建立了一个小型开放经济体（发展中国家）的分析模型，其中包括童工和公平贸易（FT）系统，使用先前（在第一年）创建的关于发展中国家童工的微观基础和先前（在第一年）记录的FT系统的特征。其次，在这个模型中，我捕获了金融服务体系的关键组成部分，并利用这个设置，我解决了模型的均衡性，并分析了金融服务的增加如何影响发展中国家的童工。第三，我从上面的构造中得到了以下结果。英国《金融时报》世界价格的上涨，会增加发展中国家不强迫子女工作的家庭数量，然而，它可能会增加发展中国家儿童的总工作时间。接下来，我证明了英国《金融时报》的工资会产生相反的结果。此外，FT（社会）溢价可能有助于减少儿童的总工作时间。第四，我继续对公平贸易机制进行正式分析。这一分析也有助于当前的研究。我在会议上展示了获得的成果。

In the project’s second year, I performed the work described below.First, I built an analytical model of a small open economy (developing country) that incorporated both child labor and the fair trade (FT) system, using a previously (during the 1st year) created micro foundation on child labor in developing countries and previously (during the 1st year) documented features of the FT system.Second, in this model, I captured key components of the FT system, and using this setting, I tackled the equilibrium of the model and analyzed how an increase in the FT affects child labor in developing countries.Third, I derived the following results from the above construction. An increase in the FT world price increases the number of households in a developing country that do not force their children to work, however, it may intensify the total working time of children in developing countries. Next, I showed that the FT wage would have the opposite result. In addition, the FT (social) premium may contribute to a decline in children’s total working time.Fourth, I continued a formal analysis of the fair trade mechanisms. This analysis also contributed to the current study. I presented obtained results at conferences.