Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34762 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3322
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic effects on shadow wages within the survey period. In contrast, damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes exclusively stunted female migration. This is consistent with the earthquakes increasing the demand for home production.
Subjects: 
Migration
labor supply
insurance
intra-household allocation
JEL: 
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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