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 …

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 …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

; theory of the household ; marital bargaining …

Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …

Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004 …

Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday … language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare … models, child labor is never exploitative. In contrast, under an inclusive welfare function, which places additional weight …