Health shocks and child time allocation decisions by households: evidence from Ethiopia

Abstract 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 analyse the effect of health shocks on the amount of children’s t...

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Main Authors: Yonatan Dinku, David Fielding, Murat Genç
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-04-01
Series:IZA Journal of Labor Economics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40172-018-0064-9