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How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...
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a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only …
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households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical …
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effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi …
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build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …
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How did industrialization in the nineteenth century affect the well-being of children among American working class families? Two revealing surveys from 1890 and 1907 are used to examine the implications of child labor on schooling decisions and on possible offsetting intrafamily transfers, in...
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Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but they require …
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consumption, and other measures of household poverty, and lead to a divergence in the next generations' educational outcomes. Our …
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In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...
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