hours on household chores also reduces. We find that school enrollment and child labor are highly substitutable in rural … more successful than child labor laws in combatting child labor - as monitoring school enrollment is much easier. …

of a school day from four to six or eight hours in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and … program across municipalities. The results show that extending the school day has no effect on the probability of being … enrolled in school, but a positive effect on the weekly hours allocated to schooling activities. When focusing on child labor …

children's time along gender lines : work, school, and domestic work in Brazil / Diana I. Kruger, Matias Berthelon and Rodrigo … allocation / Ximena V. Del Carpio and Karen Macours -- Adult returns to schooling and children's school enrollment : theory and …

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 …

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and … contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of … Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce …

poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children?s labour force participation and school enrollments of … the pure school-price change induced by a targeted enrollment subsidy in rural Bangladesh. Our theoretical model predicts … the higher school attendance induced by the subsidy …