The previous chapters have shown that working as a child is associated with lower wages and highe... more The previous chapters have shown that working as a child is associated with lower wages and higher incidence of poverty as an adult. Because wages rise with years of education, it is clear that if child labor reduces years of schooling completed, adult wages will be reduced. Numerous studies have linked child labor with lower grade attainment. However, the evidence in chapter 5 suggests that child labor lowers the rate of return per year of education, consistent with the possibility that child labor lowers the amount of human capital produced per grade completed. Although plausible, the link between child labor and student achievement in primary schools is not well understood.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Nov 16, 2016
Improving rural broadband access has been touted as a rural development strategy, but there is li... more Improving rural broadband access has been touted as a rural development strategy, but there is limited evidence that broadband service affects rural economic growth. We measure the effect of broadband deployment on location decisions of new rural firms. Location‐specific fixed effects are controlled by a counterfactual baseline that measures how local broadband service in the early 2000s affected local new firm entry in the early 1990s before broadband was available anywhere. The change in location choice probability of new firms from the counterfactual baseline to the actual response ten years later is the difference‐in‐differences estimate of the effect of broadband deployment on locations of new firms. We find that broadband availability has a positive and significant effect on location decisions of new firms in rural areas, which is confirmed by a robustness test using ZIP Code dummy variables. The broadband effect is largest in more populated rural areas and those adjacent to a metropolitan area, suggesting that this effect increases with agglomeration economies.
We develop an empirically tractable model of acreage allocation decisions in which farmers consid... more We develop an empirically tractable model of acreage allocation decisions in which farmers consider impacts of current crop production 00 future soil productivity. Because of the soil productivity effects, future crop prices are shown to affect current acreage allocations. Government programs which alter farmers' expectations of future crop prices relative to current prices also alter farmers' consideration of soil productivity effects of current acreage allocations. Reduced form and structural versions of our model are shown to yield reasonable parameter estimates.
... Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program; by Emma... more ... Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program; by Emmanuel Jimenez, and Yasuyuki Sawada. ... Calm after the storms : income distribution in Chile, 1987-94; by Francisco HG Ferreira, and Julie A. Litchfield. ...
The previous chapters have shown that working as a child is associated with lower wages and highe... more The previous chapters have shown that working as a child is associated with lower wages and higher incidence of poverty as an adult. Because wages rise with years of education, it is clear that if child labor reduces years of schooling completed, adult wages will be reduced. Numerous studies have linked child labor with lower grade attainment. However, the evidence in chapter 5 suggests that child labor lowers the rate of return per year of education, consistent with the possibility that child labor lowers the amount of human capital produced per grade completed. Although plausible, the link between child labor and student achievement in primary schools is not well understood.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Nov 16, 2016
Improving rural broadband access has been touted as a rural development strategy, but there is li... more Improving rural broadband access has been touted as a rural development strategy, but there is limited evidence that broadband service affects rural economic growth. We measure the effect of broadband deployment on location decisions of new rural firms. Location‐specific fixed effects are controlled by a counterfactual baseline that measures how local broadband service in the early 2000s affected local new firm entry in the early 1990s before broadband was available anywhere. The change in location choice probability of new firms from the counterfactual baseline to the actual response ten years later is the difference‐in‐differences estimate of the effect of broadband deployment on locations of new firms. We find that broadband availability has a positive and significant effect on location decisions of new firms in rural areas, which is confirmed by a robustness test using ZIP Code dummy variables. The broadband effect is largest in more populated rural areas and those adjacent to a metropolitan area, suggesting that this effect increases with agglomeration economies.
We develop an empirically tractable model of acreage allocation decisions in which farmers consid... more We develop an empirically tractable model of acreage allocation decisions in which farmers consider impacts of current crop production 00 future soil productivity. Because of the soil productivity effects, future crop prices are shown to affect current acreage allocations. Government programs which alter farmers' expectations of future crop prices relative to current prices also alter farmers' consideration of soil productivity effects of current acreage allocations. Reduced form and structural versions of our model are shown to yield reasonable parameter estimates.
... Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program; by Emma... more ... Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program; by Emmanuel Jimenez, and Yasuyuki Sawada. ... Calm after the storms : income distribution in Chile, 1987-94; by Francisco HG Ferreira, and Julie A. Litchfield. ...
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