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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262616
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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
sufficient intelligence by people with limited intelligence may dominate government regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761789
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio C. - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984543
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262781
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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador
Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - 2008
work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268678
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278558
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Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador
Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
work activities, while remittances are used to finance education when households are faced with these shocks. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762013
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703735