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Work versus school? : the effect of work on educational expenditures for children in Mexico
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2016
working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than … expenditure is directed towards goods that improve the quality of education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502758
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Child schooling and child work in the presence of a partial education subsidy
Hoop, Jacobus de; Friedman, Jed; Kandpal, Eeshani; … - 2017
Could a partial subsidy for child education increase children's participation in paid work? In contrast to much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731943
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505309
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2023
total one never is, if education is available, and the disutility of child labour can be compensated by the expected utility … self-enforcing, or actually counterproductive. If the government wants to re- duce child labour and raise education to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340123
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The short- and longer-term effects of a child labor ban
Piza, Caio; Souza, André Portela; Emerson, Patrick M.; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209861
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Child labor and learning
Emerson, Patrick M.; Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, André … - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro panel dataset of students in the São Paulo municipal school system. The potential endogeneity of working decisions and learning outcomes is addressed through the use of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792987
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583555
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is wellstudied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625113
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet; Dayıoğlu, Meltem - 2021
Although school integration of the children of economic migrants in developed countries is well-studied in the literature, little evidence based on large scale representative data exists on the school integration of refugee children - many of whom live in low- or middle-income countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012620009