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The Impact of Cash Transfers on Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil
Cardoso, Eliana; Souza, Andre Portela - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2004
Brazil. It describes Brazil's transfer programs and presents statistics on school attendance and child labor. In the second … 2001). Although conditional cash transfer programs in Brazil have been in place since 1996, studies on their ex-post impact … that these programs have not been effective in fighting child labor in Brazil. They increase the chance of a poor child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585316
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Long-term health and socioeconomic consequences of child labor: Evidence from Brazil
Zhang, Xuelian - 2012
. This study employs the Brazil Living Standards Measurement Study Survey to examine the long-run consequences of child labor … child labor in Brazil and other developing countries. Moreover, the different effects of early working on urban and rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334255
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Long-term health and socioeconomic consequences of child labor : evidence from Brazil
Zhang, Xuelian - 2012
. This study employs the Brazil Living Standards Measurement Study Survey to examine the long-run consequences of child labor … child labor in Brazil and other developing countries. Moreover, the different effects of early working on urban and rural … adults should be taken into account when child labor policies are proposed. -- Child labor ; Long-term ; Consequence ; Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615261
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Long-term Health and Socioeconomic Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Brazil
Zhang, Xuelian - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2012
. This study employs the Brazil Living Standards Measurement Study Survey to examine the long-run consequences of child labor … reduce child labor in Brazil and other developing countries. Moreover, the different effects of early working on urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010625632
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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398473
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Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor? : the global fight against child labor might be better served by focusing less on existing laws and more on implementa...
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2014
Regulation of the minimum age of employment is the dominant tool used to combat child labor globally. If enforced, these regulations can change the types of work in which children participate, but minimum age regulations are not a useful tool to promote education. Despite their nearly universal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420031
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021
Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548216
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koç, İsmet - 2021
Millions of children are forcibly displaced around the world, making child labor a serious risk. However, little is known about this topic due to the difficulty of finding representative datasets for this population and information on child labor. In this study, we use a representative dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550238
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Child labor and the arrival of refugees : evidence from Tanzania
Kofol, Chiara; Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2017
The impact of hosting refugees on child labor in host countries is unclear. This paper estimates both the short and the long term consequences of hosting refugees fleeing from the genocides of Rwanda and Burundi in the Kagera region of Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785599
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Child education and work : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020 - This version: June 2020
This paper examines the effect of a program that extended the length of a school day to improve schooling quality in Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage of the staggered implementation of the FTS program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426653