Household vulnerability and child labor: the effect of shocks, credit rationing, and insurance

Guarcello, Lorenzo; Mealli, Fabrizia; Rosati, Furio Camillo

doi:10.1007/s00148-008-0233-4

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“…The child contribution to household income may enable households to pay some expenses, especially for poor households having limited access to credit and little saving capacities. Previous literature highlights that the probability of a child participating to economic activities increases when a household suffers from a shock (Beegle et al, [2003], Guarcello et al, [2010]; Bohara and Vasquez, [2010]…”

Section: Using Child Labour To Cope With Climate Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We aim to clarify and quantify the relationships between climate change and child labour. Numerous papers have analysed the links between shocks, household vulnerability and child labour (Grootaert et Kanbur [1995]; Guarcello et al [2010]). However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that attempts to specifically study the impacts of climate changes on the children's economic status.…”

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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour

Boutin¹

2014

Revue d'Économie Politique

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and communities' resilience. Both, participation to economic activities and to household chores have been taken into account. We find that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on household chores. We conclude that child labour is an adjustment variable to local labour market conditions, not correlated with communities' resilience.JEL Classification: J22, J43, 055, Q54

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Section: Using Child Labour To Cope With Climate Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Climate vulnerability, communities' resilience and child labour

Boutin¹

2014

Revue d'Économie Politique

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“…A 1997 study on rural India (Jacoby and Skoufias, 2008) demonstrated that parents withdrew their children from school when facing a decline in crop income. In 2003, an analysis of Guatemalan families suggested that they adjusted the activity status of children in response to idiosyncratic shocks and natural disasters, often by leaving children in school, but requiring them additionally to take on work (Guarcello et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These should be targeted at newly vulnerable populations in the first instance, especially in urban areas (since rural areas produce some of their own food whereas urban areas are dependent on food purchases), and very young children. Guarcello et al (2002) stress the importance of targeting children at risk, however they note that risk is not based solely on family income/economic status, but that other vulnerability factors must be taken into account.…”

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confidence: 99%

What the Economic Crisis Means for Child Labour

Kane¹

2009

Global Social Policy

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The paper examines the likely impact of economic crisis on child labour. It argues that the paucity of conclusive research on this subject results from an over-simplified focus on child labour as an economic phenomenon without consideration of the behavioural context in which child labour occurs. Family behaviours at times of crisis, when heads of household are making coping decisions and reviewing the allocation of their own and their children’s time, are crucial to understanding why some families send a child into labour and others do not, even where their socioeconomic profiles may be identical. The paper makes a number of recommendations, including the need for further development of the economic/behavioural model; improved comprehensive and disaggregated data on child labour; investment in safety nets; policies and programmes targeted at influencing family decisions in favour of children’s education and protection from child labour; and more refined targeting of vulnerable populations linked to these policies.La Signification de la Crise Économique Pour le Travail des EnfantsCet article examine l’impact probable de la crise économique sur le travail des enfants. Il soutient que le manque de recherches concluantes sur ce sujet résulte d’un accent simplifié à l’excès sur le travail des enfants comme un phénomène économique, sans prendre en considération le contexte de comportement dans lequel le travail des enfants se produit. Le comportement des familles en temps de crises, quand le chef de famille prend des décisions pour se débrouiller et revoit l’allocation de son temps et celui de ses enfants, est essentiel pour comprendre pourquoi certaines familles envoient leurs enfants au travail tandis que les autres ne le font pas — bien que leurs profils socioéconomiques soient identiques. Cet article fait plusieurs recommandations, parmi lesquelles: la nécessité de développer plus profondément le modèle économique / modèle de comportement; l’amélioration des données compréhensives et désagrégées quant au travail des enfants; l’investissement dans les filets de sécurité; des politiques et des programmes qui essaient d’influencer les décisions de famille en faveur de l’éducation des enfants et la protection du travail; et une orientation plus raffinée vers les populations vulnérables liées à ces politiques.El Impacto de la Crisis Económica en el Trabajo InfantilEste documento examina el probable impacto de la crisis económica en el trabajo infantil. Propone que la escasez de investigaciones concluyentes sobre este tema resulta de un énfasis demasiado simplificado en el trabajo infantil como un fenómeno económico, sin tener en cuenta el contexto de comportamiento en que se produce. La conducta de las familias en tiempos de crisis — cuando la cabeza de familia está tomando decisiones para enfrentarse a los problemas, y está revisando la asignación de su tiempo y el tiempo de sus hijos — es decisiva para entender las razones por las cuales algunas familias mandan a sus hijos a trabajar, mientras que otras no lo hacen, a...

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“…Likewise, in the case of a food price crisis, the impact of the shock depends on whether households have access to other coping mechanisms, such as insurance (Guarcello, Mealli et al 2010) and household assets (Beegle, Dehejia et al 2006). Different types of households may respond to a food crisis differently.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%