I assess the short-term impact of a public employment program on child labor and school attendance in Argentina. Public …'s productive activities at home. The effect of public employment on school attendance may thus be small. However, I find that the … program substantially increased children's school attendance in addition to reducing child labor. My empirical strategy …

This paper aims to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban … the population in these neighborhoods, which cover both in-school and out-of-school youth of both genders. They focus on … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …

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 …

negative effects on school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those …

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 …

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 … under MGNREGA, but their school performance deteriorates. Using nationally representative employment data, they find …