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Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in...
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In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of 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...
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We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …
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decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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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 …
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Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We … scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …
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Scheduled Tribes – on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the …
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Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
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states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
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child labor. A unique data set from India that has child labor hours information confirms this hypothesis. It is shown that …
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