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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261870
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319318
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Violence and human capital investments
Koppensteiner, Martin; Menezes, Lvia - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of student exposure to homicides on their educational performance and human capital investments. Combining a number of large georeferenced administrative datasets from Brazil, we estimate the effect of exposure to homicides in the public way on these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993970
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Land access, tenure and investment in post-war Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438824
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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264935
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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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School attendance and child labor: A model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270041
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School attendance and child labor : a model of collective behavior
Strulik, Holger - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946150
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The role of poverty and community norms in child labor and schooling decisions
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612613
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Degrees of development : how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612619