hours on household chores also reduces.We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor—as monitoring school enrollment is much easier …

We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 … in the state. Using our preferred OLS estimates, we find that child labor causes a loss in students' school achievement …. Children and adolescents who do not work have better school performance than students who work. Up to two hours of work per day …

This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban … population in these neighborhoods, which covered both in-school and out-of-school youth, of both genders. The role of early … parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school is subject to particular attention. The potential …

This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban … decrease in the probability to work by 1.2 percentage points and an increase in the probability of being enrolled in school by …

outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …

school attendance. Nevertheless, conditional on family income and socioeconomic status, exogenous temporary increases in …

find it difficult to escape poverty. If children's school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it … boost school attendance so as to reduce child work. Hence, this article examines the effects of schooling costs upon both … children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between …