This book reflects the outcome of a long-term involvement in issues of child labour, non-formal education and formal school enrolment. It doc?uments research findings and practical experiences on social, econ?omic and cultural causes of child labour and various pragmatic and theory-?guided...

This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor. We exploit the cross-province variation in the roll-out of the reform and apply a difference-in-differences strategy to identify the causal effects of the reform. We find that...