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work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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As the return to education (and possibly also parental income) is uncertain, and given that the work a child does … across families using a flat-rate education grant, and a tax on parental income. That done, it should use a scholarship …
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The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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As part of the Country Programme preparation activities, a rapid assessment on child labour and education was … undertaken with a specific interest in the programme implications for IPEC. This study looked at child labour and education … issues, not only to understand child labour, but also to understand its implications for the design of education policies and …
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to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process … households' investments in education and utilisation of child labour. …
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-economic challenge. Universal primary education may be the single most effective instrument for meeting this challenge, but because of … case studies from different countries and exploring the many different ways child work and education are interconnected …
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The high primary school enrolment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean mask poor performance in terms of the quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness of formal schooling in the region. What happens to the millions of children who repeat school years, underperform in their first years of...
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