Grandmothers and Granddaughters Revisited: Declines in Health and Within-Household Labor Shares in Kagera, Tanzania
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- One of the largest shocks to economic opportunity in developing countries is a decline in health. Without affordable, accessible medical care or insurance, households are left to insure themselves against health declines. Using a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania with several measures of health, I find significant economic and non-economic costs associated with a household member falling ill. When an elderly woman falls ill, estimates suggest adolescent girls living in the same household take up a disproportionate share of the household labor. Adolescent males are not significantly affected. However, I do not find any short- or long-run effect on either the young girl’s or the young boy’s growth or educational attainment.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | June 2008 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Cacioppo, Christina Elizabeth |
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| Primary advisor | Mahajan, Aprajit |
| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
| Subject | Stanford Department of Economics |
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| Subject | Households |
| Subject | health |
| Subject | economic shocks |
| Subject | family |
| Subject | children |
| Subject | Africa |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Cacioppo, Christina Elizabeth. (2008). Grandmothers and Granddaughters Revisited: Declines in Health and Within-Household Labor Shares in Kagera, Tanzania. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/bf871cs7112
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