Commodity price shocks and child outcomes: The 1990 cocoa crisis in Côte d'ivoire

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 507-534

  Cogneau, Denis ^a   Jedwab, Rémi ^a  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CHILD LABOR; COCOA; COMMODITY PRICE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84859193864     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664017     Document Type: Review

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