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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 [IZA Discussion Paper 2611]. …
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effects on schooling outcomes. These findings suggest a previously undocumented indirect effect of drug policies on household …
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This paper studies the effects of son-preference by parents and earnings function bias on child labor and schooling in … female children working more than male children. But it does not lead to gender differential in schooling, except when the … labor and schooling. Dowry and marriage expenses can lead to inefficiently low level of schooling and high level of child …
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reserve army of child workers and policies must focus on them as well. Incidence of schooling, work and the reserve army in … collaborative policies are necessary to reach goals of universal schooling. …
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§erences in labor and schooling across children within the same household, with an application to gender. When families are …
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This paper investigates how child labor and schooling are responsive to opportunities to work, in particular to … employees, the paper suggests that child labor does not necessarily represent a trade off with schooling as it depends on the …
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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...
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We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work and schooling in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy …
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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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This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling … and lower schooling. The results reconcile economic theory with seemingly contradictory evidence from the previous …
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