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Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021
extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates … the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant …. Our results suggest that credit constraints play a role in explaining child labor and consequently that child labor is …
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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014
How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Winning the cash transfer lottery is...
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Economic Well-Being and Child Labor : The Inter Action of Family and Industry
Goldin, Claudia; Parsons, Donald O. - 2021
How did industrialization in the nineteenth century affect the well-being of children among American working class families? Two revealing surveys from 1890 and 1907 are used to examine the implications of child labor on schooling decisions and on possible offsetting intrafamily transfers, in...
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The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling : Evidence from Unicef Mics Countries
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2013
Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...
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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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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...
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Child Labor : The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between child labor and access to credit at a cross-country level. Even though … empirically. We measure child labor as a country aggregate, and credit constraints are proxied by the extent of financial … allowing for fixed effects). We find that the magnitude of the association between our proxy of access to credit and child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215341
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Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions? Evidence from Household Responses to Anticipated Cash Transfers in South Africa
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2021
This study considers the response of child labor supply and schooling attendance to anticipated social pension income in South Africa. For black households in South Africa, the social pension is large, highly anticipated, and shared across generations. Moreover, pension benefits are largely...
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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor
Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021
credit and will also require households to be forward looking …
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