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Son preference and children's housework : the case of India

Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …'s treatment. -- son preference ; child labor ; housework ; India ; National Family Health Survey …

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Women's economic capacity and children's human capital accumulation

Hoop, Jacobus de; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio Camillo; … - 2017

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....

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Why do Indian children work, and is it bad for them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...

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Does child labor lead to vulnerable employment in adulthood? : evidence for Tanzania

Burrone, Sara; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2019

This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to contribute to the literature that focuses on the obstacles to the formation early in life of the skills that allow people to avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the...

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The labour supply of mothers

Turon, Hélène - 2022

This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers' labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work...

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Gender bias in agricultural child labor: evidence from survey design experiments

Galdo, Jose; Dammert, Ana C.; Abebaw, Degnet - 2020

We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...

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The impact of child labor and school quality on academic achievement in Brazil

Bezerra, Márcio Eduardo G.; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia; … - 2009

We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB). We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques, where the instrumental...

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Child labor variation by type of respondent : evidence from a large-scale study

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - 2013

This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

A series of articles beginning with Basu and Van (1989) argue that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing in the sense that, once an equilibrium where only adults work is established, parents may have no incentive to depart from it, and the ban is no longer required. This important result...

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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); … - 2006

children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …

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