| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP8886
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| DP8886 How children?s schooling and work is affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia |
| Alice Mesnard; Emla Fitzsimons
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| 发表日期 | 2012-03-01
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children?s school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children?s school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases child labour by 3 percentage points. After using household fixed effects to deal with time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, and providing evidence suggesting strongly that estimates are not biased by time varying unobserved heterogeneity, we also exploit an interesting feature of our setting, a conditional cash transfer programme in place, and show that it counteracts the adverse effects. This, and other pieces of evidence we give, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the important safety net role played by such welfare programmes, in particular for very disadvantaged households, who are unlikely to find formal or informal ways of insuring themselves against such vagaries. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
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| 关键词 | Child labour
Schooling
Permanent departure
Income loss
Credit and insurance market failures
Conditional cash transfer
Safety net
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8886
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537722
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Alice Mesnard,Emla Fitzsimons. DP8886 How children?s schooling and work is affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia. 2012.
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