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Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi (2008), Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/4319

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Document de travail / Working paper
Date
2008
Publisher
IRD
Series title
DIAL Document de travail
Series number
DT/2008-05
Published in
Paris
Pages
39
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Author(s)
Cogneau, Denis cc
Jedwab, Rémi
Abstract (EN)
We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suffered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis (1986- 1988) data and post-crisis (1993) data, we propose a difference-in-difference within-village strategy in order to identify the causal effect of family income on children outcomes. We find a strong impact of family income variation for the four variables we examine.
Subjects / Keywords
Development; Child Labor; Health; Education
JEL
O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
I21 - Analysis of Education
I12 - Health Behavior