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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2024

Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing also in a more general...

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Chapter 19. Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

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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 …-force participation from 1900 to 1980, (v) the baby boom from 1936 to 1972. Growth theory models are presented to address all of these …

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