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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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A New Data Set of Educational Inequality in the World, 1950-2010 : Gini Index of Education by Age Group

Wail, Benaabdelaali; Hanchane, Said; Kamal, Abdelhak - 2014

education by 5-year age intervals and by sex for a broad panel. We use the Gini index of education as a measure of the … country and for each age group. This approach can significantly improve the measurement of inequality in education by … producing estimates of the Gini Index of Education more realistic and reliable especially when it comes to international …

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The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited

Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2012

Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

transfer policies to poor families significantly boost child outcomes. Mentoring, parenting, and attachment are essential …

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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction

Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical...

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture : comparative economic development ; insights from unified growth theory

Galor, Oded - 2009

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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Labour market integration and its effect on child labour

Gärtner, Manfred - 2011

This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labour markets, children may be driven out of schools and into informal or paid employment in the comparatively rich countries. In industrialized countries, the same mechanism might force...

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Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor? : the global fight against child labor might be better served by focusing less on existing laws and more on implementa...

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014

tool to promote education. Despite their nearly universal adoption, recent research for 59 developing countries finds …

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Methodological review and revision of the global hunger index

Wiesmann, Doris; Biesalski, Hans-Konrad - 2015

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....

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Child labor variation by type of respondent : evidence from a large-scale study

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - 2013

This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...

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