This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor … and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro …-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important …

"communities", meaning thereby collections of individuals who have access to community - specific public goods, from which non … seemingly paradoxical rules, such as targeting transfers to the community that is richer. Total wealth of non - poor members of … a community and its distribution both become relevant for specifying optimal indic ator targeting rules. In addition, a …