families? Two revealing surveys from 1890 and 1907 are used to examine the implications of child labor on schooling decisions …. Both issues are analyzed within the context of a formal model of family labor supply, in which returns to schooling accrue …

trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work … investment, we show that increased early life investment reduces schooling in districts with high child labor, especially for …

transfer is greater than the rise in schooling costs that comes with the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent … to use the lottery award to delay the child's entry into paid employment and protect the child's schooling status …. Schooling expenditures rise with the lottery, but total expenditures in the household decline relative to the control population …

children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities associated with that work …, family interactions, the net return to schooling, and poverty. Section 5 discusses the limited evidence on different policy …

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …

forgone earnings attributable to lost schooling exceed any earnings gain associated with child labor and that the net present …