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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; Gatti, Roberta - 2012

. The authors evaluate the causal effect of child labor participation on these outcomes using panel data from Vietnam and an …

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Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric; Turk, Carrie - 2013

Vietnam experienced a dramatic decline in child labor during the 1990s. The authors explore this decline in detail and …

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Household Composition and the Response of Child Labor Supply to Product Market Integration : Evidence from Vietnam

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2013

composition. The specific context for his study is the liberalization of rice markets in Vietnam in the 1990s. Between 1993 and … 1998, Vietnam lifted export restrictions on rice, allowing the domestic price to rise toward international levels, and … eliminated internal restrictions on the flow of rice between regions of Vietnam. So, the relative price of rice increased overall …

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The Consequences of Child Labor : Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Rural Tanzania

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2012

This paper exploits a unique longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as instrumental variables for child labor. For boys, the...

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Does Child Labor Always Decrease with Income? An Evaluation in the Context of a Development Program in Nicaragua

Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship of household income with child labor. The analysis uses a rich dataset obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has a strong productive emphasis and seeks to diversify the...

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A Positive Stigma for Child Labor?

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Shafiq, M. Najeeb - 2012

The authors introduce a simple empirical model that assumes a positive stigma (or norm) toward child labor that is common in some developing countries. They illustrate the positive stigma model using data from Guatemala. Controlling for several child and household-level characteristics, the...

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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V.; Schady, Norbert - 2012

Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy on child labor. This paper focuses on a program of unconditional cash transfers in Ecuador. It argues that the effect of a small increase in household income on child labor...

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Child Labor Across the Developing World : Patterns and Correlations

Fares, Jean; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2012

The aim of this study is two-fold. First, based on summary data at the country-level for an unusually large set of developing countries originally obtained from household sample surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003, the authors construct a detailed profile of child economic activity and child...

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School Drop-out and Push-out Factors in Brazil : The Role of Early Parenthood, Child Labor, and Poverty

Rute Cardoso, Ana; Verner, Dorte - 2012

This paper aims to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding-the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. The authors use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which cover both...

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Analyzing the Impact of Legislation on Child Labor in Pakistan

Fasih, Tazeen - 2012

This paper exploits a natural experiment approach to identify the impact of legislation (Employment of Children Act 1991) in Pakistan on participation of children in the labor markets. The law prohibits employment of children less than 14 years of age in sectors other than agriculture or...

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