This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … labour and fertility decisions. Furthermore, we investigate how child labour regulation policies can influence the welfare of …

late 2009 to early 2010 with two age cohorts of children. It gives a broad outline of some of the key indicators of … childhood poverty and changes that have taken place in the children’s lives between the earlier rounds of data collection in … to make comparisons between the older children at age 8 in 2002 (in Round 1), and the younger cohort at age 8 in 2009 …

children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove … that equal transfers among children are expected under perfect information, while the second-best contract implies risk …

opportunity evolve as children get older. Results show that although scalar indices of multidimensional poverty, deprivations or …