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 …

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 …

withdrawn from school, while richer children were more likely to attend. Thus, during periods of economic growth, education of …

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 …