PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Shaikh M.S.U. Eskander
AU  - Edward B. Barbier
AU  - Benjamin Gilbert
TI  - Fishing and Nonfishing Income Decisions: The Role of Human Capital and Family Structure
AID  - 10.3368/le.94.1.114
DP  - 2018 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 114--136
VI  - 94
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/94/1/114.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/94/1/114.full
SO  - Land Econ2018 Feb 01; 94
AB  - 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)