Notes: Review of the literature

Child Labor Supply on US Family Farms: An Interdisciplinary Conceptualization written by Jongsoog Kim from the Korea Women’s Development Institute, Lydia Zepeda and Paula Kantor from the Universtiry of Wisconsin-Madison.
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They state that most farm children in the United States work on their family farms. In developing countries, children are less likely to attend school full time, when in US most children do the work after school. The framework done for the developing countries does not fit for US because, and they state that risk perception should be included in the framework.

The research answers 2 questions: 1) Why do children work?, and 2) How much do they work?. This research develops a framework for children farm worker.

It states that parents decide their children’s labor supply on the family farm (p.4) and those parents are responsible for the development, education and leisure (educational activities) of those children.

The authors also state that even though children had always worked in family farms, the parents are motivated because they think, by living and working on a farm, their children will learn responsibility, work ethics, skills, and how to solve problems (p.6). Moreover, psychologists suggest that children are more likely to develop moral and financial responsibility through family interaction rather than through work experiences outside the home because the family is still the primary place for child development (p.7).
Working at home has also a big impact on communication within the closeness of the family. Therefore, country life is beneficial for children. The research puts together a bunch of economical and uneconomical facts that comes down to answering the two questions of the research.