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Analysis of child labour in Peru and Pakistan: A comparative study

Ray, Ranjan - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 1, pp. 3-19

child schooling. The results reject both hypotheses in the context of child labour in Pakistan and suggest that income and … regressions. For example, ceteris paribus, a Peruvian child is more likely to experience schooling than a Pakistani child. However … play in discouraging child labour and encouraging child schooling. …

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Child Farm Labor: The Wealth Paradox

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Christopher - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2003

This paper is motivated by the remarkable observation that children in land-rich households are often more likely to be in work than the children of land-poor households. The vast majority of working children in developing countries are in agricultural work, predominantly on farms operated by...

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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …

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