hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

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 …

of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and … program across municipalities. The results show that extending the school day has no effect on the probability of being … enrolled in school, but a positive effect on the weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. When focusing on child labor …

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 …

; public policy; labor supply; child labor; school attendance. This study uses an impact evaluation methodology to analyze the …, implying a better school attendance rate of their grandsons and less child labor. We found no effect for school attendance, but …