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Development, Modernization, and Son Preference in Fertility Decisions
Filmer, Deon - 2016
that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …
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Sex-Selective Abortions, Fertility, and Birth Spacing
Pörtner, Claus C. - 2017
Previous research on sex-selective abortions has ignored the interactions between fertility, birth spacing, and sex … selection, despite both fertility and birth spacing being important considerations for parents when deciding on the use of sex … selection. This paper presents a novel approach that jointly estimates the determinants of sex-selective abortions, fertility …
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Gender, Geography and Generations : Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-Reform India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2017
India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991 … paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … evidence shows that family background plays a strong role; the estimated sibling correlation in India in 2006 is higher than …
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Cash Transfers, Conditions, School Enrollment, and Child Work : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador
Araujo, Maria Caridad - 2017
The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are quot;conditionedquot; on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children...
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Child Labor Across the Developing World : Patterns and Correlations
Fares, Jean - 2016
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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Migration, School Attainment, and Child Labor : Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2016
Inequalities in access to education pose a significant barrier to development. It has been argued that this reflects, in part, borrowing constraints that inhibit private investment in human capital by the poor. One promise of the recent proposals to open international labor markets to allow for...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844585
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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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