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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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The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...
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We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in parent's compensations, child labor may insure against the decrease in...
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