Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021
, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the … negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that reducing child labor will require facilitating access to …