Adhvaryu Achyuta, Nyshadham Anant
University of Michigan & NBER.
J Dev Econ. 2017 May;126:91-111. doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.11.007. Epub 2016 Dec 5.
We study the role of household enterprise as a coping mechanism after health shocks. Using variation in the cost of traveling to formal sector health facilities to predict recovery from acute illness in Tanzania, we show that individuals with prolonged illness switch from farm labor to enterprise activity. This response occurs along both the extensive (entry) and intensive (capital stock and labor supply) margins. Family members who are not ill exhibit exactly the same pattern of responses. Deriving a simple extension to the canonical agricultural household model, we show that our results suggest complementarities in household labor.
我们研究了家庭企业在健康冲击后作为一种应对机制的作用。利用前往正规部门医疗设施的交通成本差异来预测坦桑尼亚急性疾病的康复情况，我们发现患有长期疾病的个体从农业劳动转向企业活动。这种反应在广度（进入）和深度（资本存量和劳动力供给）两个方面都有体现。未患病的家庭成员也表现出完全相同的反应模式。通过对典型农业家庭模型进行简单扩展，我们表明我们的结果表明家庭劳动力存在互补性。
