Novella, R;
Zanuso, C;
(2018)
Reallocating children’s time: coping strategies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
IZA Journal of Development and Migration
, 8
, Article 4. 10.1186/s40176-017-0109-z.
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Abstract
This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children’s time allocation. Using original data and objective geological measures, we exploit the fact that the earthquake might affect the decision about children’s time through its magnitude and household’s revealed vulnerability. Separated measures of the earthquake magnitude and its damage allow us to estimate the impact of the household’s vulnerability on the decision about the time allocation of children 10 to 17 years old. We are also able to analyze the differentiated effect on market and domestic work. Our results show that vulnerability at the time of the earthquake severely affects investments in children’s human capital almost 3 years after the shock, which increases the household’s risk of staying in poverty.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reallocating children’s time: coping strategies after the 2010 Haiti earthquake |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40176-017-0109-z |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-017-0109-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Child labor, School attendance, Natural disasters, Haiti |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091290 |
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