This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and … contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of … Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce …

characteristics as determinants of child labor and school attendance. Using a semi-parametric approach, the random effect is drawn … propensity to have their children neither in school nor working. Policy interventions and changes in external conditions are …

We analyse the determinants of school attendance and hours worked by children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. On the basis … of a theoretical model of children's labour supply, we simultaneously estimate the school attendance decision and the …

unobserved household characteristics as determinants of child labor, school attendance and idleness. We find that much of the … substitution between activities as a response to changes in covariates is between attending school and being idle, with work being … and that households with a high propensity to send their children to school are poorer and have less educated parents …

attend school and generally more likely that a child is exposed to work. The size and significance of these effects varies … either work involvement or school attendance. Double orphans appear to be especially vulnerable to schooling loss and work …

downward bias in naive models. The effect of fertility on the probability of attending school is twice as large once its …

of school attendance, could make things worse, and would be difficult to enforce. Beneficially reducing child labour …, the rational response. Suitable policies include reductions in the cost of attending school, and public health … the school attendance, demand for educational material, and labour participation of children. Educational policies have …

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina … Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression … discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children …