We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … worldwide. Data are from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, 1992-93 and 1997-98. We correct for both unobservable … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear …

We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … worldwide. Data are from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, 1992-93 and 1997-98. We correct for both unobservable … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear …

Estimating the causal impact of child work on the contemporaneous health of a child has proven quite challenging given …. Moreover, we also find evidence suggesting a heterogeneous impact of child work on health once we allow for a modest amount of …

The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the … causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling … Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The …

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

The paper develops a simple two-period model relating child labor, child school attendance and child health care access … in LDCs showing that child labor is positively correlated to access to health care services. In fact, higher medical … expenditure generates better health and, therefore, higher child productivity. Accumulation of human capital, which generates …

The ILO definition of the worst forms of child labour includes work that is likely to jeopardise health and safety …. Effective targeting of those child work activities most damaging to health requires both conceptual understanding and empirical … evidence of the interactions between child labour and health. The aim of the paper is to review the current state of such …

access to paid sick leave. Low-income employees, service sector employees, and those in poor health have the lowest coverage …