Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …

children’s propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India’s South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …