کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5094215 1478485 2017 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Health, Enterprise, and Labor Complementarity in the Household
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بهداشت، کارآفرینی و کارگری در خانواده
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی

We study the role of household enterprise as a coping mechanism after health shocks. Using variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to predict recovery from acute illness in Tanzania, we show that individuals with prolonged illness switch from farm labor to enterprise activity. This response occurs along both the extensive (entry) and intensive (capital stock and labor supply) margins. Family members who are not ill exhibit exactly the same pattern of responses. Deriving a simple extension to the canonical agricultural household model, we show that our results suggest complementarities in household labor.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Development Economics - Volume 126, May 2017, Pages 91-111
نویسندگان
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