The Heterogeneous Effects of a Food Price Crisis on Child School Enrolment and Labour: Evidence from Pakistan

Autor:	Kinnon Scott, Seo Yeon Hong, Xiaohui Hou
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	school enrollment Labour economics child labor digestive oral and skin physiology Food prices Economics Development food commodity prices health care economics and organizations food prices
Zdroj:	The Journal of Development Studies. 52:718-734
ISSN:	1743-9140 0022-0388
DOI:	10.1080/00220388.2015.1093116
Popis:	Using a panel survey, this paper investigates how food price increases in Pakistan in 2008–2010 affect children’s school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on the geographical variations in food (wheat) price. The results show that the negative impacts of food price increase on school enrollment differ by gender, economic status and the presence of siblings. The negative effects on school do not directly correspond to the increase in child labor because the transition from being idle to labor activity or from school to being idle is significant, particularly among poor girls. The results also show that children in households with access to agricultural lands are not affected by higher food prices. The analyses reveal a more dynamic picture of the impact of food price increase on child status and contribute to broader policy discussion to mitigate the impact of crises on child education.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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