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Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities associated with that work …, family interactions, the net return to schooling, and poverty. Section 5 discusses the limited evidence on different policy …
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investment; Evidence From Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599670
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761626
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Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor? : the global fight against child labor might be better served by focusing less on existing laws and more on implementa...
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014
compulsory schooling laws and minimum age of employment regulations may help maximize the joint influence of these regulations on …
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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The analytical returns to measuring a detailed household roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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The Analytical Returns to Measuring a Detailed Household Roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615441
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Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor?
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
compulsory schooling laws and minimum age of employment regulations may help maximize the joint influence of these regulations on …
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Economic influences on child migration decisions: evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - 2007
Why do young children migrate without a parent? We consider the economic components of the answer to this question by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 million children appear to have migrated away from home...
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Economic influences on child migration decisions : evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - In: Indian growth and development review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 32-56
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