Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many … adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a … simple parametric method based on a simultaneous probability model of school attendance and child labor. The paper also …

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

withdrawn from school, while richer children were more likely to attend. Thus, during periods of economic growth, education of …

Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many … adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a … simple parametric method based on a simultaneous probability model of school attendance and child labor. The paper also …

This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor … driver of low school attendance and child labor. But it provides also an explanation for why equally poor villages or regions …, school attendance, work, and leisure, the paper shows how the time costs of schooling and child labor productivity contribute …

This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of … community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of absence from school … schooling. Distinguishing between three different modes of child time allocation, school attendance, work, and leisure, the …

school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When …

administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of …