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We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work and schooling in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy …
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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 …
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the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and reductions in …
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suggest important policy implications, namely that policy measures involving schooling incentives, i.e., human capital supply … processes. Keywords: Schooling, Productivity, Firm Survival, Regions …
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Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for … and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over time. The proposed model provides an explanation for why equally … poor villages or regions display different attitudes towards schooling and why children who are not working are not sent to …
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to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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Being the first born of a family entails inherent responsibilities. Sociologists, psychologists and economists have long argued that the first born's receive differentiated treatment within the household. This paper tests and quantifies the existence of a disproportionate workload over the...
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There is some indirect evidence that child labor is affected by market imperfections. This paper provides a theoretical model to discuss the effect of improvements on the labor market, when households cannot rely on neither the land nor the credit markets. The predictions differ by land...
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Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Social Programs on Family Welfare Key‐words: impact evaluation; cash transfer; public policy; labor supply; child labor; school attendance. This study uses an impact evaluation methodology to analyze the non-contributory pension program BPC on family welfare....
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obtain the highest schooling degree by 20 per cent in the countries under study. Besides transmission factors also identified …
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