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Child labour and consumer responsibility: an impact study

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  • Leonardo Becchetti

    (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

  • Stefano Castriota

    (University of Trento)

  • Melania Michetti

    (Fondazione Enrico Mattei)

Abstract

We evaluate the impact of fair trade (FT) affiliation on child labour on a sample of Chilean honey producers with a retrospective panel data approach. From a theoretical point of view we argue that, in the short run, FT acts, on both adult and child wages, as a pure income effect to which a productivity effect adds up in the medium run. The direction of the impact is therefore uncertain and requires empirical testing. Our econometric findings document a significant impact of affiliation years on child schooling after controlling for endogeneity and the heterogeneity between treatment and control sample.

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  • Leonardo Becchetti & Stefano Castriota & Melania Michetti, 2008. "Child labour and consumer responsibility: an impact study," Working Papers 103, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
    • Handle: RePEc:inq:inqwps:ecineq2008-103
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    Keywords

    Fair Trade; child labor.;

    JEL classification:

    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
    • O22 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Project Analysis
    • D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers

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