The effects of land and enterprise ownership on child labor: evidence from Mexican households
(2012) EKHR92 20121Department of Economic History
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Significant amount of studies have found evidence on the effects of land ownership on child labor suggesting that land-rich households tend to employ their children more than land-poor households, this phenomenon was labeled as “the wealth paradox”. In this study we include enterprise ownership in the empirical analysis to investigate the effect of ownership and the size of such assets on child labor. Three different limited dependent variable specifications were used to model the effects of asset ownership on the probability of child labor, hours of child labor, and the probability of specializing in labor, specializing in school, combining both activities, or neither do one nor the other. We found some evidence that land-rich households... (More)
- Significant amount of studies have found evidence on the effects of land ownership on child labor suggesting that land-rich households tend to employ their children more than land-poor households, this phenomenon was labeled as “the wealth paradox”. In this study we include enterprise ownership in the empirical analysis to investigate the effect of ownership and the size of such assets on child labor. Three different limited dependent variable specifications were used to model the effects of asset ownership on the probability of child labor, hours of child labor, and the probability of specializing in labor, specializing in school, combining both activities, or neither do one nor the other. We found some evidence that land-rich households are more likely to have boys and girls laborers than land-poor households. In the case of enterprise ownership it was found evidence on the wealth paradox only for girls. In general, girls tend to work more and combine school and labor activities while boys tend to specialize in either school or labor activities. (Less)
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- author
- Ortiz Mares, Minerva LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHR92 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- child labor, asset ownership, wealth paradox.
- language
- English
- id
- 2857191
- date added to LUP
- 2012-09-27 08:49:46
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abstract = {{Significant amount of studies have found evidence on the effects of land ownership on child labor suggesting that land-rich households tend to employ their children more than land-poor households, this phenomenon was labeled as “the wealth paradox”. In this study we include enterprise ownership in the empirical analysis to investigate the effect of ownership and the size of such assets on child labor. Three different limited dependent variable specifications were used to model the effects of asset ownership on the probability of child labor, hours of child labor, and the probability of specializing in labor, specializing in school, combining both activities, or neither do one nor the other. We found some evidence that land-rich households are more likely to have boys and girls laborers than land-poor households. In the case of enterprise ownership it was found evidence on the wealth paradox only for girls. In general, girls tend to work more and combine school and labor activities while boys tend to specialize in either school or labor activities.}},
author = {{Ortiz Mares, Minerva}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The effects of land and enterprise ownership on child labor: evidence from Mexican households}},
year = {{2012}},
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