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, also work fewer hours. These results are mostly robust to addressing potential feedback effects between schooling and test …
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operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes …
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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...
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Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
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compulsory schooling laws and minimum age of employment regulations may help maximize the joint influence of these regulations on …
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Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
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