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0000-0003-4226-7072
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Griffith University
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RMIT University
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Australian National University
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2021
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.4429
Abstract: Many developing countries have adopted community‐based primary health‐care programs. A vital component of these programs is health literacy, which teaches households to avoid physical harm. Child labor can often result in physical harm through injury. Our hypothesis is that health literacy programs make households aware of previously unknown costs of child labor (i.e., risks of injury), resulting in a reallocation of labor away from children. Using Ethiopian data, we investigate if exposure to a community‐level health program delivered by Health Extension Workers (HEWs) lowers child labor. We use panel data comprising 5587 observations from 2255 children over four waves of the Young Lives Project. These data are combined with administrative regional‐level data on HEWs over the 2006–2016 period. Our identification strategy exploits variations in the deployment of HEWs across regions and time to investigate a plausibly exogenous effect on child labor. We provide evidence that supports our hypothesis. We posit that the mechanism behind our result is likely behavioral change, and rule out several other potential channels, including public safety net programs and the effect of HEWs on education. Our results point to the role that health programs can play in the fight against child labor.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/ASEJ.12016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-10-2019
DOI: 10.1111/DEVE.12215
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 24-11-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-02-2021
DOI: 10.1002/HEC.4224
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2015
Abstract: The extant literature indicates that remittance inflows from developed to developing countries provide liquidity for domestic financial institutions, which aids in the development process. However, the reverse effect has been neglected. This paper tests whether more financial services and opportunities in the home country attract remittances to developing countries. It addresses this hypothesis using a dataset of 72 developing countries over the period 1997–2011. The paper finds evidence that remittance inflows are driven by increased availability of domestic financial services. In particular, the presence of microfinance institutions is found to be a key driver in stimulating migrant remittances. These findings, perhaps, suggest that remittance-sending migrants may not be altruistic and send remittances to maximize their own future income. Alternatively, the results suggest that microfinance organizations have been successful in attracting remittances by lowering transaction costs and proving linked services.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2019
Publisher: Cuadernos de Economia
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 14-03-2016
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the principal determinants of women’s employment in the manufacturing sector of Bangladesh using a firm-level panel data from the World Bank’s “Enterprise Survey” for the years 2007, 2011 and 2013. The paper sheds light on the demand-side factors, mainly firm-level characteristics, which also influence this decision. – The authors estimate a fractional logit model to model a dependent variable that is limited by zero from below and one from above. – The results indicate that firm size, whether medium or large, and firms’ export-oriented activities, have an important impact on women’s employment in the manufacturing sector in Bangladesh. Moreover, the authors find that women are significantly more likely to work in unskilled-labour-intensive industries within the manufacturing sector. – The research is limited to Bangladesh however, much of the evidence presented here has implications that are relevant to policymakers in other developing countries. – The study identifies factors that affect female employment, that is, where the main constraints to increase female labour force participation. The study focuses on the demand-side factors, which has been somewhat neglected in recent years. As such, it has practical policy implications. – Focusing on female employment in Bangladesh also sheds light on the nexus between labour market opportunities and social change within a country that is characterised by extreme patriarchy, which has wide-reaching implications. – This is an original and comprehensive paper by the authors.
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 12-02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-12-2015
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-11-2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-05-2014
DOI: 10.1111/SJPE.12044
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3158063
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-03-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-12-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-05-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1017/DEM.2020.14
Abstract: Increasingly, studies are examining whether the incidence of natural disasters influences household migration. This paper examines whether the severity of natural disasters is important for migration decisions in Vietnam, rather than just examining their occurrence. Data for a s le of 1,003 farm households from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey are examined for the period 2006–2008. A residual generated regressor approach is adopted to isolate the direct impact of disasters on migration from the indirect impact they have on migration through reducing agricultural output and income. Findings suggest that more severe disasters are directly associated with a greater probability of migration. Furthermore, such outcomes are the same for poor households vis-à-vis their non-poor counterparts.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-05-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-03-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-02-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-07-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-07-2023
DOI: 10.1111/TWEC.13322
Abstract: We examine the impact of various hardships on in idual's consideration of migration as a coping mechanism. Previous studies fail to identify the microeconomic drivers of migration during crises, lumping all the potential consequences of a crisis into singular categories. We argue that migration is one of several coping strategies available to in iduals and present an empirical model that motivates this proposition. Our approach also suggests that unobserved factors, such as ability, determine both returns to migration as well as the availability of domestic (non‐migration) coping strategies, which curbs migration. We use new survey data covering over 1000 in iduals in three large Venezuelan cities. This nation is undergoing a crisis caused by unprecedented levels of hyperinflation, which resulted in the worse migration crisis in Latin American history. We focus on hardships that characterise the Venezuelan situation: food insecurity scarcity of health products/services crime and diminished purchasing power. We marry this information to data on stated preferences over migration. We recognise that in iduals may desire to migrate temporarily or permanently and model those choices separately and subsequently treat them as competing options. Our preferred results suggest that falling victim to crime and poor health services motivate migration. We conclude with policy suggestions.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2019
DOI: 10.1111/RODE.12571
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-02-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2020
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