The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic … is a function of the risk preference of the household head. This paper estimates the effect of parental risk preference … on child labour decisions in the household using recall information on child labour and a risk elicitation question. We …

inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or … exacerbate the human capital impacts of rainfall shocks depending on whether it relaxes or constrains household budgets. The data … come from a three-round panel household survey in rural Colombia collected between 2010-2016. The main findings are that …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …