TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Badaoui, Eliane El
AU  - Mangiavacchi, Lucia
        TI  - Fostering, Child Welfare, and Ethnic Cultural Values
        PY  - 2018/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11691
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11691
        AB  - This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The focus is on the causal role of ethnic inherited cultural values and behaviours in perpetuating fostering. In particular, at the ethnic group level, we rely on the inherited level of community integration, the situation of frequent interethnic violence, and an indicator of great importance attributed to foster parents. We specify a simultaneous equations model with three outcomes for children (school attendance, hours of market work and hours of domestic work) and a treatment variable (fostering).
The results show that foster children are more likely to attend school and to have longer hours of domestic work than biological children. Importantly, we find evidence of a schooling fostering for boys and a domestic fostering for girls. We provide heterogeneous effects for different samples and test the robustness of the results to different empirical specifications. All in all, ethnic inherited values and behaviours are found to have an important causal effect on children's welfare.
        KW  - child fostering
KW  - culture
KW  - child labour
KW  - domestic work
KW  - schooling
KW  - Niger
        ER  -