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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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Impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour : evidence from a panel survey of Tanzania

Bandara, Amarakoon; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Rouse, Shaheen Lavie - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labour using a model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital development of the child. Two types of shocks are considered: agricultural shocks as an income shock and the death...

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School, market work, and household chores : a day of Guatemalan children

Canelas, Carla - 2015

This paper utilizes a unique dataset on time use to study the determinants of the number of hours allocated to market work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits information on the duration of schooling in order to...

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Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar : application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) model

Jensen, Henning Tarp; Keogh-Brown, Marcus; Tarp, Finn - 2021

Myanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour. But child exploitation continues, including use of forced labour by the military and children performing hazardous work. Moreover,...

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Female say on income and child outcomes : evidence from Nigeria

Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel - 2016

This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in...

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Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto

Canelas, Carla; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2018

In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...

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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children

Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017

This paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes. Accounting for timeinvariant unobservable...

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Children's endowment, schooling, and work in Ethiopia

Dendir, Seife - 2013

I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on tests of cognitive skills/ability. A child's...

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Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households : evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants Programme

Sebastian, Ashwini; De la O Campos, Ana Paula; Daidone, … - 2016

We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...

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Impact of the global commodity and financial crises on poverty in Vietnam

Thurlow, James; Tarp, Finn; McCoy, Simon; Nguyen, Manh Hai - 2010

Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … left Vietnam little changed from a baseline (no crises) path in terms of aggregate indicators including the poverty rate … crisis leaving poverty rates below the (no crises) baseline. -- economic crisis ; growth ; poverty ; Vietnam …

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