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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...

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Social Interactions and Schooling Decisions

Lalive, Rafael; Cattaneo, Alejandra - CESifo - 2006

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …

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Globalization, Gender and Development: The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2011

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000 …

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Political Repression and Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich - CESifo - 2004

Most normative studies on child labor arrive at the conclusion that child labor is detrimental to social welfare. Child labor is, however, still prevalent in many developing countries even though in many of these countries it is forbidden by law. In this paper we develop a political-economic...

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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India

Dasgupta, Basab; Zimmermann, Christian - CESifo - 2012

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with...

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