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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children’s allocation …

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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil

Chioda, Laura; Mello, João M. P. de; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …

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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Ludwig, Jens; Miller, Douglas L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical assistance to the 300 poorest counties to develop Head Start proposals. The result was a large and...

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Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The...

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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda

Ferrone, Lucia; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

rate of primary school completion, evidence that points to the problem of the low quality of primary education in …

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate....

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Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present decade....

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Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … lower bounds on the trade-off between family size and average child quality. Our estimates indicate that, at least in one … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the "Left Behind" Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect...

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The Analytical Returns to Measuring a Detailed Household Roster

Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...

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