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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from Odesk and India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

This paper examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. The data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts. Despite oDesk minimizing many of the frictions that diaspora … to choose a worker in India. This higher placement is the result of a greater likelihood of choosing India for the …

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Public Enterprise Reform : A Challenge for the World Bank

Ruppert, Elizabeth - 2017

Public enterprises (PEs) earn an average 10 percent of GDP in developing countries. Many governments are reexamining the role of the state, so questions about whether to divest PEs or make them more efficient are likely to intensify. The Bank will increasingly be called upon for advice and...

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The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education

Sekhri, Sheetal - 2020

such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India …

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Effects of Public Policy on Child Labor : Current Knowledge, Gaps, and Implications for Program Design

Dammert, Ana - 2017

Many policy instruments can be used to address or affect child labor, even if they are implemented to achieve other objectives. From a theoretical point of view, however, the impact of these policies on child labor is undetermined. This paper discusses the evidence generated by rigorous...

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Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Child-Labor Ban

Piza, Caio - 2017

This is the first study to investigate the short- and long-term causal effects of a child-labor ban. The study explores the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time allocated to schooling and work in the short term and on...

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The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil : Some Preliminary Findings

Piza, Caio - 2017

This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in Brazil?s child labor law of December 1998. The change increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16 years. The analysis uses a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact of this change in the...

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Child Labor and Learning

Emerson, Patrick M. - 2017

This paper uses a unique micro panel dataset of Brazilian students to investigate the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes. The potential endogeneity is addressed through the use of difference-in-difference and instrumental variable estimators. A negative effect of working on...

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Cash Transfers and Child Labor

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2017

Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labor is prevalent. Although many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labor is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of a Food Price Crisis on Child School Enrollment and Labor : Evidence from Pakistan

Hou, Xiaohui - 2017

Using a panel survey, this paper investigates how the increase in food prices in Pakistan in 2008-2010 affected children's school enrollment and labor. The causal identification relies on geographical variations in the price of food (wheat). The results show that the negative impacts of food...

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