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This paper evaluates a microsimulation technique by comparing the simulated outcome of a program with its actual effect. The ex ante evaluation is carried out for a conditional cash transfer program, where poor households were given money if the children attended school. A model of occupational...
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bivariate probit model in order to take into account the joint nature of the decisions between labor and schooling, this paper …
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reallocation of time used by children for activities such as schooling, household chores, remunerative work, and leisure. The … negative effects of credit constraints on schooling amount to a 60% decrease of average schooling time. However, the magnitude …
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This paper offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of child labor, schooling, and `idleness' (neither work nor … ability. As well, children in the poorest households combine work and schooling if they are sufficiently able. Using a rich … not a ban on child labor, which may only increase the pool of idle children, in some cases by decreasing child schooling …
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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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radically depart from existing ones. It uses data gathered from a randomized schooling subsidy experiment in Mexico (i) to … estimate and validate a dynamic behavioral model of parental decisions about fertility and child schooling, (ii) to forecast …
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique … shocks. Assets such as livestock have mixed effects on child labor and schooling, depending on the shock and asset type …
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A dynamic heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model is constructed to quantify the effects of child labor legislation on human capital accumulation and the distribution of wealth and welfare. Crucial model elements include a human capital externality in the market sector, an informal home...
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and schooling are treated as chosen without consideration of unobserved abilities or health endowments, child labor … endowments to alter the age of labor market entry and years of schooling completed, the joint effects of child labor and … schooling on health become larger while the less plausible health consequences lose significance. Results imply that delaying …
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Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
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