The Effects of Job Site Sanitation and Living Conditions on the Health and Welfare of Agricultural Workers

George Frisvold (), Richard Mines and Jeffrey Perloff

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1988, vol. 70, issue 4, 875-885

Abstract: The lack of field sanitation on agricultural job sites increases the probability of agricultural workers reporting gastrointestinal disorders by 60%. Adverse living conditions significantly increase the probability of gastrointestinal, respiratory, and muscular problems. These three health problems do not appear to increase the probability that a worker's family is on welfare or to lower workers' earnings. Respiratory problems, however, substantially increase the probability that the worker receives unemployment compensation.

Date: 1988
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1241929 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
Working Paper: The effects of job site sanitation and living conditions on the health and welfare of agricultural workers (1987)
Working Paper: The effects of job site sanitation and living conditions on the health and welfare of agricultural workers (1987)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:70:y:1988:i:4:p:875-885.

Access Statistics for this article

American Journal of Agricultural Economics is currently edited by Madhu Khanna, Brian E. Roe, James Vercammen and JunJie Wu

More articles in American Journal of Agricultural Economics from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().