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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004

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Working-age Adult Mortality and Primary Sschool Attendance in Rural Kenya

Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - EconWPA - 2005

The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its impact on child welfare. This article estimates the impact of AIDS-related adult mortality on primary school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed...

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Is the Structure of Happiness Equations the Same in Poor and Rich Countries? The Case of South Africa.

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

Are happiness patterns structurally the same when comparing poor and rich countries? Using cross-sectional data from the SALDRU93 survey, we show that the relationships between subjective well-being and socioeconomic variables have a similar structure and is U-shaped in age in South Africa as in...

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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Child Labor, Fertility and Economic Growth

Hazan, Moshe; Berdugo, Binyamin - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

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Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - EconWPA - 2005

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the entire...

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Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise?

Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A. - EconWPA - 2003

In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in parental income need not always lead to increases in schooling and to decreases in child labor. This surprising result derives from the systematic way capital market constraints...

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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description...

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Protecting Education for the Poor in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of a Scholarship Program in Indonesia

Sparrow, Robert - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of an Indonesian scholarship program, which was implemented in 1998 to preserve access to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process followed a decentralised design, involving both geographic...

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