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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labour and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labour and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
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experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …
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This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...
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working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than … expenditure is directed towards goods that improve the quality of education. …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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education or training (NEET) increases among girls, particularly for those with less-educated parents, but not among boys. In …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
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