Effects of Insurance on Child Labour: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Behavioural Changes
通过理论模型和巴基斯坦海得拉巴市的健康保险扩展实证，发现保险减少童工主要源于事前保护感而非事后冲击缓解效应。
In this paper we analyse possible effects of insurance on child labour. First, we develop a theoretical model that separates effects of insurance with and without a shock taking place. We then empirically test the hypotheses derived from the model by analysing the extension of a health insurance product in urban Hyderabad in Pakistan. Consistent with the theoretical model we develop in this paper, the reduction in child labour caused by the extension is largely due to an ex-ante feeling of protection as opposed to an ex-post shock-mitigation effect.