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Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China
Tang, Can - 2019
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor … identify the causal effects of the reform. We find that the exposure to the free compulsory education significantly reduces the … additional semester of free compulsory education decreases the incidence of child labor for boys by 8.3 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868805
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Cash Transfers and Child Labour
de Hoop, Jacobus - 2013
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078832
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Free education helps combat child labor? : the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China
Tang, Can; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2019
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor … identify the causal effects of the reform. We find that the exposure to the free compulsory education significantly reduces the … additional semester of free compulsory education decreases the incidence of child labor for boys by 8.3 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019315
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Cash Transfers and Child Labour
de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children's welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959601
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Child Work and Schooling in a Backward Region of Andhra Pradesh, India: Observations from the Field
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The paper made an attempt present the micro reality with respect to child work and educational deprivation of children in the form of observations made based on the field survey in a village of backward district in Andhra Pradesh. The discussion sheds light on the circumstances that lead to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259764
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Globalization, consumerism and child labour
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper highlights the implication of consumerism on the incidence of child in a developing economy using a two-sector general equilibrium model. It finds that although consumerism raises incomes of the poor households and decreases the earning opportunities of the children, this is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260267
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Foreign Direct Investment, Child Labour and Unemployment of Unskilled Labour in a Dual Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using a three-sector specific-factor Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model the paper demonstrates how an inflow of foreign capital might produce favourable effect on the incidence of child labour in a small open dual economy. The welfare of the working families is likely to improve due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596424
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Globalization, Consumerism and Child Labour
Dwibedi, Jayanta Kumar; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2008
This paper highlights the implication of consumerism on the incidence of child in a developing economy using a two-sector general equilibrium model. It finds that although consumerism raises incomes of the poor households and decreases the earning opportunities of the children, this is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215746
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Education Subsidy, Trade Liberalization and Foreign Capital Inflow : Impact on Supply of Child Labour and Unemployment of Adult Labour in a Small Open Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - 2002
The paper builds up a Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model to examine the implications of a free education … policy and liberalized trade policies on the child labour market. It shows that an increase in the subsidy on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120753
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Incidence of Child Labour, Free Education Policy and Trade Liberalization in a Developing Economy
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - 2002
The paper analyzes the implications of a subsidy policy on education and different liberalized trade and investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116624