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14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that …This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to … the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an …
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household chores. While the general results are maintained in households with a married couple present, in de jure female … simultaneously increasing boys' labour input in household chores. This puts into question the existence of gender preferences in …
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This study measures the impact of a flood in 2010 in Benin on children’s schooling and labor. The data used are the National Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of 2006 and 2012. The difference in differences estimates points out a significant decrease in income for farm households following...
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This paper examines the relationship between economic growth, household's income, child labour and school attendance in … micro and macro determinants of child labour. The results show that both household's earnings and economic growth are …
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I investigate the impact of early childhood exposure to the 1990s welfare reform on short and long-run outcomes among those likely to be affected by changes to Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program rules. Using two supplements of the Panel...
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Child labourers play an integral role in households' income diversification process by contributing to farm and non-farm incomes but policies, including that of the ILO have focused largely on eliminating child labour from the agricultural sector through education. This study sought to ascertain...
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: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical … model and empirically test for this causality using data from the seventh round of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. We …
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