public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among … international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long … domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor …

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare … inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban. Given this finding, we investigate the potential political-economic reasons … behind the emergence and persistence of child-labor legislation. Our investigation is based on a structural dynamic general …

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 the incidence of child labor in developing countries and thereby … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing …

; theory of the household ; marital bargaining …