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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling: A Simple Model with Application to Brazil
Kruger, Diana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Berthelon, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling … identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural … and lower schooling. The results reconcile economic theory with seemingly contradictory evidence from the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761678
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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin
Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012
How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189313
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Child Labor And Schooling In Bolivia: Who’s Falling Behind? The Roles Of Domestic Work, Gender And Ethnicity
Contreras, Dante; Kruger, Daniela; Zapata, Daniela - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007
We analyze the work-school tradeoff among Bolivia’s children. We compare a definition of work that includes only market activities and one that also considers domestic chores. Our empirical specification considers the joint determination of these decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558645
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Child labor and schooling in Bolivia: Who’s falling behind?
Guajardo, Dante Contreras; Kruger, Diana; Zapata, Daniela - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007
We analyze the work-school tradeoff among Bolivia’s children, comparing a definition of work that includes only market activities and one that also includes domestic chores. Our empirical specification considers the joint determination of these decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527247
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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling : A Simple Model With Application to Brazil
Kruger, Diana I. - 2014
This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling … identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural … and lower schooling. The results reconcile economic theory with seemingly contradictory evidence from the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709539
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Household Choices of Child Labor and Schooling : A Simple Model With Application to Brazil
Kruger, Diana I.; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Berthelon, Matias - 2021
This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling … identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural … and lower schooling. The results reconcile economic theory with seemingly contradictory evidence from the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317079
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Coffee Production Effects on Child Labor and Schooling in Rural Brazil
Kruger, Diana I. - 2014
children's time. I test how this variation affects child labor and schooling in Brazilian coffee regions using seven rounds of … household surveys. Increases in county-level value of coffee production led to more work and less schooling among boys, and … lower schooling among girls. Girls without childcare responsibilities were more likely to work. Poorer boys and girls were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068366
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Work versus school? : the effect of work on educational expenditures for children in Mexico
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2016
This paper explores the impact of child labor on child welfare, with a specific focus on the relationship between working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502758
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797673
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Family social norms and child labor
Katav-Herz, Shirit; Epstein, Gil S. - 2021
Child labor is a widespread phenomenon and therefore is of interest to both researchers and policy makers. Various reasons for the existence of child labor have been proposed with the goal of designing appropriate solutions. While household poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703241