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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced restrictions to employ underage individuals, and imposed penalties for the violation...
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The impact of remittances versus parental absence on children’s wellbeing : evidence from Rural Punjab
Jamil, Nica - In: The Lahore journal of economics 22 (2017) 2, pp. 1-37
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Child labor under cash and in-kind transfers : evidence from rural Mexico
Tagliati, Federico - 2019
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Intergenerational effect of education reform program and maternal education on children's educational and labor outcomes : evidence from Nepal
Shrestha, Vinish; Shrestha, Rashesh - 2017
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Child education and work : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020 - This version: June 2020
This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in … Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage … being enrolled in school, but affects weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. Moreover, exposure to the program …
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Child labor under cash and in-kind transfers
Tagliati, Federico - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 3, pp. 709-733
-recipient households experience a significantly larger decrease in paid employment and hours of work, and an increase in schooling, as …
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Gone with the flood : natural disasters and children's schooling in Pakistan
Khan, Qaisar; Hussain, Karrar - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 1, pp. 271-283
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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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The impact of Zambia’s unconditional child grant on schooling and work results from a large-scale social experiment
Handa, Sudhanshu; Natali, Luisa; Seidenfeld, David; … - 2015
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Preference based vs. market based discrimination : implications for gender differentials in child labor and schooling
Gupta, Alok Kumar - In: Journal of development economics 105 (2013), pp. 64-68
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