children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms … of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school …

This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor … and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro …-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important …

This paper investigates how community attitudes affect school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of … the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed … community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of absence from school …