Health Shocks and Child Time Allocation Decisions by Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

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Health Shocks and Child Time Allocation Decisions by Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

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University of Otago

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Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children’s time between alternative activities. Using longitudinal data from the Ethiopian Young Lives surveys of 2006 and 2009, we analyze the effect of health shocks on the amount of children’s time spent in work, leisure and education. We find that paternal illness increases the time spent in income-generating work but maternal illness increases the time spent in domestic work. Moreover, maternal ...

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Working Paper

Date created

2017-04

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Dinku, Yonatan / Fielding, David / Genc, Murat

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7265

Related subjects

parental illness / child labour / Ethiopia

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