outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child … inequality through increased child earnings. Our findings are consistent with theoretical predictions from our model and the …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that reducing child labor will require facilitating access to …

decisions in developing countries. In the present case, the data support the theory that liquidity constraints contribute to … child labor and schooling are largest among pensioners with little formal education. This finding suggests that the current … emphasis in development policy of addressing child labor by attacking labor demand may be misdirected …

education and child labor legislation became more stringent and potentially constrained secondary-school aged youths. It might … appear from the timing and the specifics of this history that the laws caused the increase in education rates. We evaluate … the possibility that state compulsory schooling and child labor laws caused the increase in education rates by using …

theory alone it is difficult to generalize about the effect of labor standards on efficiency and equity. Some economists have …