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The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children builds on exogenous variation in family size due to twin births and focuses on human capital outcomes. The typical finding can be described as a statistically nonsignificant...

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Fertility, Education, and Market Failures

Dessy, Sylvain; Pallage, Stephane - In: Journal of African Development 5 (2002) 2

equilibrium model with endogenous fertility, parental investment in children’s education and ?rms’ tradeoff between traditional …

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women''s transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain...

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Employment penalty after motherhood in Spain

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...

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Social norms, inequality and child labor

Goto, Hideaki - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 6, pp. 806-814

This paper theoretically analyzes a situation wherein adults’ decisions on child labor are affected not only by materialistic utility but also by a social norm against child labor. The adult thus faces a tradeoff; on the one hand, household income rises if she sends her child to work. On the...

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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor

Epstein, Gil S.; Kahana, Nava - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might...

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Child Labor, Fertility and Economic Growth

Hazan, Moshe; Berdugo, Binyamin - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the evolution of child labor, fertility, and human capital in the process of development. In early … stages of development the economy is in a development trap where child labor is abundant, fertility is high and output per …, thereby inducing parents to substitute child education for child labor and reduce fertility. The economy takes-off to a …

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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

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The Determinants of Child Labour and Child Schooling in Ghana.

Ray, R. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2000

This paper investigates the main determinants of child labour and child schooling in Ghana, with special reference to the interaction between child labour and adult labour markets. This paper proposes a test of the link between household poverty and child labour hours, and provides Ghanian evidence.

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The Challenge of Child Labour in Rural India: A Multi-Dimensional Problem in Need of an Orchestrated Policy Response.

Chaudhri, D.P.; Wilson, E.J. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 2000

This paper is an attempt to provide a tentative framework for an objective, factual and systematic look at important dimensions of the child labour problem in rural India.

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