Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply, Education, and Health of Children: Evidence from Malawi

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Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply, Education, and Health of Children: Evidence from Malawi

dc.contributor.author	Xia, Fang
dc.contributor.author	Deininger, Klaus
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-02T21:30:40Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-02T21:30:40Z
dc.date.issued	2019-04-24
dc.description.abstract	Using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in Malawi, we examine the spillover effects of tobacco farms on children’s labor supply, education, and health. To address potential endogeneity, the share of tobacco farms in a community is instrumented by the change in tobacco buyers following termination of the intermediate buyer system. We find that, as tobacco cultivation is labor-intensive, children in communities with more tobacco growers spend more time as casual laborers and are less likely to advance to the next grade. Adverse health effects, measured by the likelihood of suffering from illnesses related to green tobacco sickness, are estimated to be larger than previously documented. This affects not only “working-age” children but also children too young to work on tobacco farms. Moreover, exposure to large-scale tobacco cultivation is estimated to reduce the height-for-age z-score of children aged 6–60 months. These findings highlight the importance of raising awareness and taking measures to protect children against green tobacco.	en
dc.identifier.citation	American Journal of Agricultural Economics
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/31606
dc.identifier.issn	1427-8276
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31606
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT STUDY
dc.subject	TOBACCO FARMS
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	CHILD LABOR
dc.subject	GREEN TOBACCO SICKNESS
dc.subject	CHILDREN'S HEALTH
dc.subject	TOBACCO CULTIVATION
dc.title	Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply, Education, and Health of Children	en
dc.title.subtitle	Evidence from Malawi	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://academic.oup.com/ajae/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajae/aaz011/5479564 Journal website (version of record)	en
okr.crossref.title	Spillover Effects of Tobacco Farms on the Labor Supply, Education, and Health of Children: Evidence from Malawi
okr.date.disclosure	2020-10-24
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1093/ajae/aaz011
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/31606
okr.identifier.report	137521
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Agriculture::Agricultural Sector Economics
okr.topic	Education::Early Childhood Development
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Early Child and Children's Health
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Tobacco Use and Control
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Child Labor
okr.unit	DECAR
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