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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

transfer is greater than the rise in schooling costs that comes with the end of primary school, but it is less than 20 percent … to use the lottery award to delay the child's entry into paid employment and protect the child's schooling status …. Schooling expenditures rise with the lottery, but total expenditures in the household decline relative to the control population …

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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 … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …

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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

controlling for a wide range of variables such as GDP per capita, urbanization, initial child labor, schooling, fertility, legal …

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Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the 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...

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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 … presents an unusually clean test of the applicability of the Life-Cycle/Permanent Income model to child labor and schooling … in household non-labor income is associated with a sizeable decline in child labor and increases in schooling. Changes in …

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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

forgone earnings attributable to lost schooling exceed any earnings gain associated with child labor and that the net present …

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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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