TY - JOUR T1 - Fishing and Nonfishing Income Decisions: The Role of Human Capital and Family Structure JF - Land Economics JO - Land Econ SP - 114 LP - 136 DO - 10.3368/le.94.1.114 VL - 94 IS - 1 AU - Shaikh M.S.U. Eskander AU - Edward B. Barbier AU - Benjamin Gilbert Y1 - 2018/02/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/94/1/114.abstract N2 - Resource-dependent households often diversify their income. We model demand for remittances and supply of off-resource labor as a joint decision, and discuss household trade-offs. We extend the off-farm labor supply literature to a rural fishery, contrasting our results to common findings in the farm literature and providing empirical evidence of the interdependence between education and family structure in determining income diversification. Using a unique dataset from Malaysia, we find that more-educated households are less likely to diversify their income, with caveats depending on family composition. Policy implications for resource management in a remittance economy with alternative livelihoods are discussed. (JEL Q22) ER -