health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … (young) adults who worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they … paper--a joint product of the Investment and Growth and Poverty Teams, Development Research Group--is part of a larger …

1991 and 2004. The analysis addresses concerns about heterogeneity and unobservable factors correlated with both income …

strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …

, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy, we evaluate the … reduced schooling, particularly for girls. We find no significant effects of child labour on several indicators of health …