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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20200219T161500
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SUMMARY:Seminar:  Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks: The Role of Intra-Household Labour Substitution
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Mr. Abhishek Dureja\, IGIDR\, Mumbai\n \nDate & Hour:  19 February 2020\, 4:15 pm\n\nVenue:  Seminar Hall 1\n\nTitle:  Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks: The Role of Intra-Household Labour Substitution\n\nAbstract:   In developing countries where medical infrastructure and service delivery system\, and the market for health insurance are underdeveloped\, one important mechanism to cope with consequences of health shocks is the intra-household substitution of labour. Most of the available studies have evaluated intra-household labour substitution in response to a health shock using low frequency annual data. This paper\, using a panel of high frequency monthly data from the rural households in semi arid tropics of India\, investigates the impacts of short-term illness shocks on individuals’ labour supply and wage earnings. It also evaluates compensating intra-household labour supply responses to short-term illness shocks of other non-ill members of the household. We find that an illness shock reduces an individual’s monthly wage earnings by 4.3% via the decline in the individual’s days of work in the labour market. Further\, an illness shock to the household-head causes a compensating increase in the spouse’s labour supply in wage labour market and livestock activities. Similarly\, an illness shock to the spouse forces the household-head to devote more time to domestic and livestock activities.
URL:http://www.igidr.ac.in/seminars/seminar-11/
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