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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2006

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Impact of Social Labeling on Child Labor in the Indian Carpet Industry

Chakrabarty, Sayan; Grote, Ulrike - 2007

are engaged in the social labeling process. Data was obtained from interviews with 417 households in North India. Based on …

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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin

Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012

How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...

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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); … - 2006

children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2023

Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing if, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing, but a total one never is, if education is available,...

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Of trackers and tractors : using a smartphone app and compositional data analysis to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia

Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina - 2019

Digital tools may help to study socioeconomic aspects of agricultural development that are difficult to measure such as the effects of new technologies, policies and practices on the intra-household allocation of time. As new technologies, policies and practices may target different crops and...

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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced restrictions to employ underage individuals, and imposed penalties for the violation...

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Of trackers and tractors: Using a smartphone app and compositional data analysis to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia

Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109799

Schooling and child labor: Evidence from Mexico's full-time school program

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020

Child labor is a matter of international concern. This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. To identify the...

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Gender Bias in Agricultural Child Labor: Evidence from Survey Design Experiments

Galdo, Jose C.; Dammert, Ana C.; Abebaw, Degnet - 2020

Agricultural labor accounts for the largest share of child labor worldwide. Yet, measurement of farm labor statistics is challenging due to its inherent seasonality, variable and irregular work schedules, and the varying saliences of individuals' work activities. The problem is further...

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