This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z …-scores as measures of long-term health. The panel nature of the data helps to control for community, household and individual … level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies, the influence of parental health on children is examined. In addition …

child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the … marginal productivity of children is roughly one-third to one-half that of male adults. The average contribution of each … household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of child workers, rather than for wages. In this study, we estimate a …

This paper uses household survey panel data of 416 rural households to study livestock asset dynamics in the north …-east of Ethiopia. The period under examination (1996-2003) was marked by severe environmental shocks, including a series of …

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … unemployment are negatively related to household welfare. Since we cannot reject that the latter is endogenous, this suggests that …

child labour variables are compared. We conclude that children and adults are perfect labour substitutes and that the … marginal productivity of children is roughly one-third to one-half that of male adults. The average contribution of each … household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of child workers, rather than for wages. In this study, we estimate a …

The methodology by Lazear and Michael (1988) is used to decompose household expenditures into that for adults and …-headed households. While households with a larger number of children expend more on children in per capita terms, the number of adults … to the estimated expenditures on children than with total household expenditure. This result on the one hand underscores …

separability in preferences. Panel/longitudinal data are used helping to control for household level heterogeneity. The empirical … household income affect male members of households (men and boys) more than female members (women and girls). On the other hand …, changes in price affect women and boys more than men and girls. In addition, adjustments in household expenditure due to …

Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …

Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …