offer evidence from India that higher returns to primary education increase schooling and decrease idleness but have a …

work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … information on the duration of schooling in order to compute survival probabilities or the probability of dropping out of school … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …

hours on household chores also reduces.We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor—as monitoring school enrollment is much easier …