Lucia Mangiavacchi is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Balearic Islands since September 2013 and IZA Research Fellow since 2017. She had joined the University of Balearic Islands as Assistant Professor in 2011 after working at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Florence. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florence in 2010. Lucia's main research interests include family economics, labour economics, and public economics. Her research activities focuses on household decision-making and intrahousehold inequalities; child development and long-run impacts of childhood circumstances; time-use allocation and the redistributive impact of public policies.

Session IV - Human Capital - 26/10/2017 16:30 - 18:15

Fostering, Children’s Time Use and Schooling in Niger: A test of the Cinderella Effect

Child fostering is a social institution that shows the relevance of extended families for child welfare. Ethnographic and historical studies provide evidence of a geographical widespread of such a traditional community arrangement based on child relocation. The paper proposes a joint estimation strategy of children’s allocation of time and fostering-in decision with an identification strategy based on anthropological and historical data. The main finding is that fostering institution facilitates human capital investment in Niger and do not increase child labour. It represents a Pareto improving institution.

Other Speakers in this session:

Michele Di Maio (University of Naples “Parthenope”)
Education is Forbidden: The Effect of the Boko Haram Conflict on Schooling in Nigeria

Roberto Nisticò (University of Naples “Federico II” and CSEF)
The Effect of Parental Job Loss on Child School Drop Out: Evidence from Occupied Palestinian
Territories