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Children's Working Hours and School Enrollment: Evidence from Pakistan and Nicaragua

Rosati, Furio C.; Rossi, Mariacristina - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2003

We analyse the determinants of school attendance and hours worked by children in Pakistan and Nicaragua. On the basis of a theoretical model of children's labour supply, we simultaneously estimate the school attendance decision and the hours worked by Full Model Maximum Likelihood. We analyse...

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School Participation in Rural India.

Drèze, Jean; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1999

, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …

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Simulation of the Effects of the Economic Crisis and Response Policies on Children in West and Central Africa: The Case of Burkina Faso

Cockburn, John; Tiberti, Luca; Fofana, Ismaël; Balma, … - UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project; UNICEF … - 2010

Burkina Faso’s hard earned economic gains in recent years have been eroded by the 2008-09 world financial and economic crisis. The country will particularly feel the effects of the world economic crisis due to its close links with the world economy. Most of the adverse effects are transmitted...

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The Child Labor in Developing Countries: A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals

Rena, Ravinder - In: Indus Journal of Management & Social Science (IJMSS) 3 (2009) 1, pp. 1-8

, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …

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Simulating the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis and Policy. Responses on Children in West and Central Africa

Cockburn, John; Fofana, Ismaël; Tiberti, Luca - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2010

The current global financial and economic crisis, which exacerbates the impacts of the energy and food crises that immediately preceded it, has spread to the developing countries endangering recent gains in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction. The effects of the crisis are likely to...

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El Trabajo Infantile y la Educación Básica en America Latina y el Caribe

Arboleda, Vicky Colbert de; Himes, James R.; Mendez, … - 1994

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L'impact de la hausse des prix des produits alimentaires sur la pauvreté des enfants et les reponses politiques au Mali

Bibi, Sami; Cockburn, John; Coulibaly, Massa; Tiberti, Luca - 2009

, l'éducation, le travail et l'accès aux services de santé des enfants. Selon les simulations, chez les enfants la … diffusion probable des bénéfices aux autres membres du ménage. De plus, pour des décisions concernant le travail, l'éducation et …

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The Subterranean Child Labour Force: Subcontracted home-based manufacturing in Asia

Biggeri, Mario; Mehrotra, Santosh - 2002

Child labour is widespread in home based manufacturing activities in the informal sector in most developing countries. This form of child labour will not attract the penal provisions of a country’s laws banning child labour. This paper draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries –...

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Child Education and Work Choices in the Presence of a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Rural Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio; Fitzsimons, Emla; Gomez, Ana; Lopez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour. Using a quasi-experimental approach, our methodology makes use of an interesting feature of the data, which allows us...

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Education, Poverty and Child Labour

FABRE, Alice; AUGERAUD-VERON, Emmanuelle - Econometric Society - 2004

child labour and human capital accumulation. If parents don't choose for quality of education, it is shown that a poverty … trap may occur in the presence of a consumption subsistence or when the quality of education is inadequate. A private … education system, where schooling quality is endogeneized can improve growth and reduce child labour, and cycles may occur. A …

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