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The effect of ILO minimum age conventions on child labor and school attendance : evidence from aggregate and individual-level data

Boockmann, Bernhard - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 38 (2010) 5, pp. 679-692

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Keeping kids in school and out of work : compulsory schooling and child labor in Turkey

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2020

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform...

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Schooling costs and child labour in rural Pakistan

Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun Singh - 2002

Ein verbreitetes Argument in der Debatte über Kinderarbeit ist, dass verbesserte Zugangsmöglichkeiten zu Schulen ein … effektives Mittel sind, um Kinderarbeit zu reduzieren. Es wird angeführt, dass bei der Zeiteinteilung eines Kindes Ausbildung und … Schulausbildung, würde demnach den Schulbesuch auf Kosten der Kinderarbeit steigern. In unserem Beitrag unterscheiden wir zwischen …

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Allocation of children's time endowment between schooling and work in rural Ethiopia

Assefa Admassie - 2002

, geleistet haben. In jüngster Zeit ist das Thema Kinderarbeit zu einem wichtigen Thema in der Entwicklungsforschung geworden … Problem der Kinderarbeit zu verringern. …

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Why do Indian children work, and is it bad for them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2000

, the rational response. Suitable policies include reductions in the cost of attending school, and public health … improvements. The effects of these policies go far beyond direct impacts. Health policies have favourable indirect repercussions on …

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Intergenerational effect of education reform program and maternal education on children's educational and labor outcomes : evidence from Nepal

Shrestha, Vinish; Shrestha, Rashesh - 2017

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Estimating the Effect of Fertility Decisions on Child Labor and Schooling

Deb, Partha; Rosati, Furio C. - 2014

We use an econometric model of fertility and children’s activities to examine the causal effects of fertility on a child’s activities taking the endogeneity of fertility into account. Our specification is nonlinear and simultaneous and uses latent factors to allow for unobserved influences...

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Child Labor and School Attendance : Two Joint Decisions

Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2014

In this paper, a variety of potentially explanatory indicators for child labor and school attendance in Zambia is scrutinized. By analysing the results from a bivariate probit model, new doubt is raised with regard to the income sensitivity of the child labor choice. Different factors in the...

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The Effect of Ilo Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2008

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the question. Evidence based on country-level data...

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Estimating the Effect of Fertility Decisions on Child Labour and Schooling

Deb, Partha; Rosati, Furio C. - 2009

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the number of children as being endogenous in the multinomial logit process generating children's activities using a latent factor structure. Latent factors are incorporated into the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074327