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. …

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 …

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and … contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of … Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce …

that these programs are good at promoting certain outcomes such as school attendance, but that other outcomes such as … regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques—simple comparison of mean outcomes, regression analysis … and propensity score matching—we examine the program's impact on school attendance, performance in school and child labor …