levels – particularly for children in the midst of the accumulation process. In this paper we approach this issue using the …

bus, etc., while in many developing countries lines quickly dissolve into crowding. Moreover, children in the US are … informal social networks). We characterize the payoffs to these capitals. We embed them in a dynamic model, in which parents … can choose to send their children to schools to acquire standing-in-line capital, but at a loss to household production …

parents are of poor health, unable to invest much in reducing mortality risk and improving their human capital. Consequently …

child labour and human capital accumulation. If parents don't choose for quality of education, it is shown that a poverty …

ability. As well, children in the poorest households combine work and schooling if they are sufficiently able. Using a rich … not a ban on child labor, which may only increase the pool of idle children, in some cases by decreasing child schooling … cognitive development through investments in the nutrition and health of poor children …

biased because people choose where their children go to school. The model in the paper solves this problem by using a …