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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 Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2019
Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of poverty, but they require labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered randomized trial, we work with the Government of the Philippines to evaluate a key component of their child labor...
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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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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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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014
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 associated with a decline in work for pay away from the child's home. The cash … transfer is greater than the rise in schooling costs that comes with the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent …
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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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You Get What You Pay for : Schooling Incentives and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2013
transfer incentivized the schooling of children associated with carpet factories in Nepal. We find that schooling increases and …
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Drought of Opportunities : Contemporaneous and Long Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
Shah, Manisha - 2013
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production especially in the developing world. We show that human capital investment is procyclical in early life (in utero to age 3), but then becomes countercyclical. We argue this countercyclical effect is caused by families...
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie; Rotemberg, Martin; Shah, Manisha; … - 2022
Policies that improve early life human capital are a promising tool to alter disadvantaged children's lifelong trajectories. Yet, in many low-income countries, children and their parents face tradeoffs between schooling and productive work. If there are positive returns to human capital in child...
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Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina - 2021
This paper considers the impact of liberalized trade policy on child labor in a developing country. While trade liberalization entails an increase in the relative price of the exported product, trade theory provides ambiguous predictions on how this price change affects the incidence of child...
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