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Land, child labor, and schooling: longitudinal evidence from Colombia and Mexico

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  • Julián Arteaga Vallejo

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Varios estudios encuentran que la incidencia del trabajo infantil es mayor en los hogares con mayor tenencia de tierras. La existencia de esta "paradoja de la riqueza" se ha explicado como consecuencia de imperfecciones simultáneas en los mercados de tierra y trabajo. Este trabajo muestra que aunque los hogares en Colombia y México parecen presentar esta misma relación positiva entre la tierra y el trabajo infantil, la “paradoja de la riqueza” desaparece cuando los individuos son evaluados usando datos longitudinales. La principal hipótesis del autor sobre la posible explicación para esto es que las preferencias idiosincráticas de los hogares con respecto al trade-off entre la escolarización y el trabajo infantil no son observables en el análisis de datos transversales conduce a una sobreestimación del efecto que la tierra tiene en estos resultados.

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  • Julián Arteaga Vallejo, 2016. "Land, child labor, and schooling: longitudinal evidence from Colombia and Mexico," Coyuntura Económica, Fedesarrollo, vol. 46(2), pages 169-202, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:col:000438:015798
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    Keywords

    Tenencia de la Tierra; Trabajo Infantil; Escolarización;
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    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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