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reversed after treatment in the program. Indigenous children also had lower school attainment compared with Spanish-speaking or … bilingual children. After the program, school attainment among indigenous children increased, reducing the gap. This paper …
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negative effects on school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those …
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and employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: • First, the crisis had no … effect on the attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell … time available and may therefore put more effort into school. He concludes with a discussion of the implications of his …
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Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...
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such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India … child labor. Introduction of MGNREGA results in lower relative school enrollment in treated districts. The authors find that … the drop in enrollment is driven by primary school children. Children in higher grades are just as likely to attend school …
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