Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply, Education, and Health of Children: Evidence
from Malawi
大骨头的做法期刊名称： American Journal of Agricultural Economics做梦梦见水
作者： Fang Xia,Klaus Deininger
作者机构： Rearch Institute for Global Value ChainsUniversity of International
Business and Economics,World Bank
年份： 2019年黄以安
羊皮卷
期号： 第4期
关键词： Tobacco farm;child labor;education;health;Malawi
摘要：Using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in Malawi, we examine the spillover e
航母排水量ffects of tobacco farms on children's labor supply, education, and health. To address potential endogeneity, the share of tobacco
丑恶farms in a community is instrumented by the change in tobacco buyers following termination of the intermediate buyer system. We find that, as tobacco cultivation is labor-intensive, children in communities with more tobacco growers spend more防碰瓷
炒蚕豆time as casual laborers and are less likely to advance to the next grade. Adver health effects, measured by the likelihood of suffering from illness related to green tobacco sickness, are estimated to be larger than previously documented. This affects not only "working-age" children but also children too young to work on tobacco farms. Moreover, exposure to
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