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There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from … remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances … increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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This paper examines the impacts of international remittances on child labor and household welfare by presenting … evidence from Turkey. Remittances by alleviating resource constraints may improve household welfare and help reduce labor …. Remittances improve household welfare by significantly reducing the chances of recipient households living under the poverty line …
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Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey. Using the …
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Tanzania between 1991 and 2004. The study uses longitudinal data from the Kagera Health and Development Survey. Using the …
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avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 …
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avoid vulnerability. Using the panel data survey for the Kagera region of Tanzania, we select children who were 7 to 15 …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … dollars from U.S. migrant remittances appear to enable families to further educate their daughters. Thus, policymakers should …
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