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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno Prasad - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT Project

de Hoop, Jacobus - 2012

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...

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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced restrictions to employ underage individuals, and imposed penalties for the violation...

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2021

The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : A hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while...

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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2024

Basu and Van (1998) show that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount of consumption can compensate parents for the disutility of child labour. We show that a partial ban may be self-enforcing also in a more general...

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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

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Push or pull? Drivers of female labor force participation during India's economic boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - 2012

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Coupling Labor Supply Decisions: An Experiment in India

Lowe, Matthew; McKelway, Madeline - 2021

bargaining. We study whether these barriers to joint decision-making keep female labor force participation low in India. In … partnership with one of India’s largest carpet producers, we offered a weaving job to 495 married women. We randomized whether job …

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Does Access to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Reduce Women Household Burden? Evidence from India

Su, Qinghe; Azam, Mehtabul - 2022

Using the nationally representative Indian Time Use Survey, we study whether the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of LPG by a leave-one-out spatial instrument constructed by...

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