Labor Effects of Adult Mortality in Tanzanian Households
By Kathleen G. Beegle. Economic development and cultural change, 2003
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Due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, sub‐Saharan populations are challenged with increasing adult mortality rates that have potentially profound economic implications. Yet little is known about the impact of adult deaths in African households. Using panel data from Tanzania, this article will explore how prime‐age adult mortality affects the time allocation of surviving household members and the portfolio of household farming activities. Analysis of farm and chore hours across demographic groups generally found small and insignificant changes in labor supply of individuals in households experiencing a prime‐age adult death. While some farm activities are temporarily scaled back and wage employment falls after a male death, households did not shift cultivation toward subsistence food farming and did not appear to have reduced their diversification over income sources more than 6 months after a death.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research
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- Child labor and agricultural shocks (2006, unknown): “The Kagera Health and Development Survey (KHDS) was part of a research project conducted by the World Bank and the University of Dar es Salaam (see inter alia Burke and Beegle, 2004; Ainsworth et al., 2002; Beegle, 2005 ).5 The KHDS surveyed over 800”
- Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, background): “In contrast, in labor surplus areas, on average there may be no observable impact of a prime-age death on the labor supply of surviving household members, as suggested in a study of northwest Tanzania by Beegle (2005).”
- War and poverty (2010, unknown): “…with widows, orphans and disabled individuals), which may well become insurmountable if the household is unable to replace labour or capital (Beegle 2005; Berlage, Verpoorten and Verwimp 2003; Donovan et al 2003; Justino and Verwimp 2006; Brück and Schindler 2007; Verwimp and Bundervoet…”
- Why Children Aren’t Attending School: The Case of Northwestern Tanzania (2004, background): “For example, the child may be employed in the labour force either inside or outside the household, in order to increase the household’s resources causing the child’s attendance to decline, although evidence of this impact is weak (Beegle, 2002).”