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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Dillon, Andrew - 2012

Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...

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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2012

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...

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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India

Dasgupta, Basab - 2014

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with...

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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2014

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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Child Labor and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia

Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2014

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...

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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Doepke, Matthias - 2014

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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Impact of Paternal Temporary Absence on Children Left Behind

Booth, Alison L. - 2009

Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...

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Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work : Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey

Dayioğlu, Meltem - 2020

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of … schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor … that incapacitation effects of a compulsory schooling policy (combined with investment in schooling infrastructure) can be …

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Why is Child Labor Illegal?

Dessy, Sylvain - 2007

We argue from an empirical analysis of Latin American household surveys that per capita income in the country of residence has a negative effect on child labor supply, even after controlling for other household characteristics. We then develop a theory of the emergence of mandatory education...

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