Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Cote d’Ivoire

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Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use: An Application to Cocoa Farms in Cote d’Ivoire

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dc.contributor.author	Jouvin, Marine
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-06T17:43:44Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-06T17:43:44Z
dc.date.issued	2023-09-19
dc.description.abstract	This paper proposes new estimates of child labor use in Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa farms that are certified free of child labor. The study relies on list experiments (LE) to overcome social desirability bias associated with measuring sensitive issues, implemented on a sample of 4,458 Ivorian cocoa farmers. Findings show that 24 percent of them were helped by at least one child under 16 for harvesting and breaking the cocoa pods during the past 12 months, 21 percent for preparing their farm, and 25 percent employed and paid at least one child to perform any task on their cocoa farm. These results are twice as high as those declared by farmers when directly questioning them about their child labor use. This study provides evidence that the LE method, while more cognitively demanding than the direct questioning method, can be successfully understood by populations with low levels of education. Findings further show that, in this setting, the LE estimates are robust to specific LE design changes.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	The World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhad030
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/42013
dc.identifier.issn	0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42013
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	LIST EXPERIMENT
dc.subject	SOCIAL DESIRABILITY
dc.subject	CHILD LABOR
dc.subject	CERTIFICATION SCHEMES
dc.subject	DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	SDG 8
dc.title	Addressing Social Desirability Bias When Measuring Child Labor Use	en
dc.title.subtitle	An Application to Cocoa Farms in Cote d’Ivoire	en
dc.type	Journal Article
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okr.date.disclosure	2024-08-06
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okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	Africa Western and Central (AFW)
okr.region.country	Cote d'Ivoire
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Child Labor
okr.unit	Social Protection Team (HDNSP)
okr.volume	38 (3)
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