This paper seeks to understand household business decisions in response to increased credit access in an environment … using household- and child-level panel data from Thailand. To isolate the causal impacts of household borrowing, I exploit … increase household access to credit in the world. I find that, consistent with the model, expanded access to credit raises …

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the … extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates …

This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the … extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates …