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Child Labor as a Coping Mechanism: Children’s Time Use Responses to Community and Individual Shocks

Pieper, Theresa LU (2023) EKHS42 20231
Department of Economic History
Abstract
This thesis explores the impact of community and individual shocks on children’s
time use and aims to determine if and under what conditions households use child
labor as a response to shocks. For this purpose, four survey rounds of a panel of
Ethiopian children aged 5 to 15 are analysed. To address endogeneity problems and
to overcome issues related to the data acquisition process, both a fixed effects and a matched difference-in-difference model are applied. The results show that children significantly increase their hours of work when they experience either of the two shocks, while this is not the case for hours spent on chores. Factors like age, the socioeconomic and the rural/urban status lead to heterogeneous results. However, no... (More)
This thesis explores the impact of community and individual shocks on children’s
time use and aims to determine if and under what conditions households use child
labor as a response to shocks. For this purpose, four survey rounds of a panel of
Ethiopian children aged 5 to 15 are analysed. To address endogeneity problems and
to overcome issues related to the data acquisition process, both a fixed effects and a matched difference-in-difference model are applied. The results show that children significantly increase their hours of work when they experience either of the two shocks, while this is not the case for hours spent on chores. Factors like age, the socioeconomic and the rural/urban status lead to heterogeneous results. However, no gendered effects are found. This thesis provides important policy recommendations concerning the importance and the nature of formal coping strategies that should be provided for households to be able to deal with shocks without resorting to child labor. (Less)
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author
Pieper, Theresa LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS42 20231
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Child Labor, Chores, Household Shocks, Community Shocks, Informal Coping Mechanisms, Time Use Allocation, Ethiopia, Fixed Effects, Matched Difference-in-Difference, Panel Data
language
English
id
9129798
date added to LUP
2023-08-30 08:01:24
date last changed
2023-08-30 08:01:24
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  abstract     = {{This thesis explores the impact of community and individual shocks on children’s
time use and aims to determine if and under what conditions households use child
labor as a response to shocks. For this purpose, four survey rounds of a panel of
Ethiopian children aged 5 to 15 are analysed. To address endogeneity problems and
to overcome issues related to the data acquisition process, both a fixed effects and a matched difference-in-difference model are applied. The results show that children significantly increase their hours of work when they experience either of the two shocks, while this is not the case for hours spent on chores. Factors like age, the socioeconomic and the rural/urban status lead to heterogeneous results. However, no gendered effects are found. This thesis provides important policy recommendations concerning the importance and the nature of formal coping strategies that should be provided for households to be able to deal with shocks without resorting to child labor.}},
  author       = {{Pieper, Theresa}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Child Labor as a Coping Mechanism: Children’s Time Use Responses to Community and Individual Shocks}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}