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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from …
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explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper …
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remittance receipt and household time allocation decisions, we instrument remittances using economic conditions in remittance … participation of younger children. …
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household’s investments in human capital of school age children. In this context both child labour supply and transnational …
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urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend school more and work less in total but are …. Urban proximity is found to reduce the workload of children and improve school attendance up to 3 hours of travel time from … the city. In areas of commercialized agriculture located 3 to 7 hours from the city, children do more farm work. Urban …
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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household …
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at the international level, that is, how to invest in women’s rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We … states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set … and the women’s data set. Our results show that the presence of the mother in the family increases children welfare, in …
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The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children …
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