complements in the family labor supply decision in Bangladesh. We look separately at models for children's market work and …

In 2000, Ramadan school vacation coincided with the original annual exam period of December in Bangladesh. This forced … demand on school dropout in Bangladesh among the children from agricultural households. …

poverty alleviation programs. …

This paper examines the effects of poverty and schooling returns on child labour in Vietnam using household-level data … from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey (VLSS) for 1997-98. I find that poverty is a robust determinant of child labour in … Vietnam. Being above the poverty line reduces child work by as much as 146 hours a year. There is little additional effect of …

that creates a “high education trap.” This results in poverty and perpetuation of child work in households with highly …

The link between poverty and child labor has traditionally been regarded as well established but recent researches have … study revisits the link between poverty and farm child labor in Africa and aims at testing the paradoxical wealth effect … relationship between poverty and child labor. The study therefore sustains that the apparent wealth paradox found in the literature …

states and a poverty trap. The paper considers the long-run and short-run effects of an array of policies like enrollment …