Research Article
Government Transfers and Time Allocation Decisions: The Case of Child Labour in Ethiopia
Ervin Prifti,
Silvio Daidone,
Greta Campora,
Noemi Pace,
Corresponding Author
Ervin Prifti
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
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Ervin Prifti, Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy.
E-mail: ervin.prifti@fao.org
Search for more papers by this authorSilvio Daidone
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorGreta Campora
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorNoemi Pace
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
University of Teramo, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorErvin Prifti,
Silvio Daidone,
Greta Campora,
Noemi Pace,
Corresponding Author
Ervin Prifti
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Correspondence to:
Ervin Prifti, Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy.
E-mail: ervin.prifti@fao.org
Search for more papers by this authorSilvio Daidone
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorGreta Campora
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Search for more papers by this authorNoemi Pace
Food and Agriculture Organization, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
University of Teramo, Italy
Search for more papers by this author[Correction added on 11 September 2020 after first online publication: A second affiliation for author Noemi Pace was omitted in the original version of the article. This updated version corrects this error.]
Abstract
We exploit the social cash transfer programme in Ethiopia to study how an increase in unearned income through a government transfer affects children's work time allocation and their school attendance rate. In rural areas, the transfer led to a half an hour reduction in the total number of hours worked, while in urban areas, transfers had the opposite impacts, worsening the child labour situation with no impacts on the share of children attending school. An insufficient transfer amount and lack of messaging on its recommended use may partly explain the mixed results on child labour and the lack of impacts on school attendance. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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