Counting the uncounted: The consequences of children's domestic chores for health and education in Ethiopia

dc.contributor.authorDinku, Yonatan
dc.contributor.authorFielding, David
dc.contributor.authorGenc, Murat
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-06T04:20:49Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-12
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:40:15Z
dc.description.abstractMuch of the existing literature on the economics of child labor assumes that child labor is synonymous with employment in income‐generating activities. However, children also perform domestic chores, and excessive involvement in chores may be detrimental to their wellbeing. This paper investigates the effect on child health and education outcomes of participation in domestic chores as well as participation in income‐generating activities. Our data come from the 2014 Young Lives survey of Ethiopia. We use the guidelines of the 18th International Conference of Labor Statisticians and the United Nations Children's Fund to make a distinction between light work and harmful work, and apply this distinction to both domestic chores and income‐generating work. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find that involvement in harmful domestic chores is strongly associated with poor health and education outcomes. Our findings suggest that excessive involvement in domestic chores constitutes a form of child labor. Ignoring domestic chores will lead to an underestimate of the prevalence of child labor, especially among girls, whose exposure to chores is much higher, on average, than that of boys.en_AU
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dc.identifier.citationDinku Y, Fielding D, Genç M. Counting the uncounted: The consequences of children's domestic chores for health and education in Ethiopia. Rev Dev Econ. 2019;23:1260–1281. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12587en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1363-6669en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/202097
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_AU
dc.rights© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltden_AU
dc.sourceReview of Development Economicsen_AU
dc.subjectchild laboren_AU
dc.subjectchild wellbeingen_AU
dc.subjectdomestic choresen_AU
dc.subjectEthiopiaen_AU
dc.titleCounting the uncounted: The consequences of children's domestic chores for health and education in Ethiopiaen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage1281en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1260en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDinku, Yonatan, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFielding, David, University of Otagoen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGenc, Murat, University of Otagoen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu5121304@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidDinku, Yonatan, u5121304en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160501 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo940102 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfareen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3102795xPUB4077en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume23en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1111/rode.12587en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85062939447
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu3102795en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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