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Children's Working Hours and School Enrollment : Evidence from Pakistan and Nicaragua

Rosati, Furio C.; Rossi, Maria Christina - 2003

We analyse the determinants of school attendance and hours worked by children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. On the basis … of a theoretical model of children's labour supply, we simultaneously estimate the school attendance decision and the …

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Chapter 19. Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2005

Growth theory can go a long way toward accounting for phenomena linked with U.S. economic development. Some examples are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in skill since 1800, (iii) the demise of child labor...

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Chapter 57 Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007

In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...

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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 … decrease in the probability to work by 1.2 percentage points and an increase in the probability of being enrolled in school by …

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Child labor under cash and in-kind transfers

Tagliati, Federico - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 3, pp. 709-733

This paper studies the effects of cash versus in-kind transfers on the time allocation of children exploiting the randomized rollout of a program which transferred either cash or a basket of food to poor households in Mexico. Children in cash-recipient households experience a significantly...

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Child work and cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 425-465

literature by using cognitive test scores collected regardless of school attendance. We also address a key gap in the literature … work, like chores and market/farm work, relative to specific alternative time‐uses, like school or study or play …/leisure. Our results show child work is more detrimental to child development to the extent that it crowds out school/study time …

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Household choices of child activities in the presence of cash transfers

Casco, José L. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 196 (2022), pp. 524-545

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Keeping kids in school and out of work : compulsory schooling and child labor in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G. - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 16 (2022) 4, pp. 526-555

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The effect of compulsory schooling laws and child labor restrictions on fertility : evidence from the early twentieth century

Shanan, Yannay - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 1, pp. 321-358

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Can regional trade agreements negatively impact primary schooling?

Chong, Alberto; Srebot, Carla - In: Open economies review 34 (2023) 2, pp. 317-339

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