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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2009
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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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2007
a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James - 2015
and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only …
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Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana
Barker, Nathan; Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical …
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Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi …
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Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2018
build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453443
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Economic Well-Being and Child Labor : The Inter action of Family and Industry
Goldin, Claudia; Parsons, Donald O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1981
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 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 …
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie - 2020
consumption, and other measures of household poverty, and lead to a divergence in the next generations' educational outcomes. Our …
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
Doepke, Matthias - 2009
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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