work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … information on the duration of schooling in order to compute survival probabilities or the probability of dropping out of school … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop …

In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down … to about 5 percent. Adjusted net primary school attendance rates have increased from 90.8 percent in 2008 to 96 ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary …

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

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 …