We test whether work in childhood impacts on health. We focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work … worldwide. Data are from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, 1992-93 and 1997-98. We correct for both unobservable … level surveys. We use three indicators of health: body mass index; reported illness; and, height growth. There is clear …

The ILO definition of the worst forms of child labour includes work that is likely to jeopardise health and safety …. Effective targeting of those child work activities most damaging to health requires both conceptual understanding and empirical … evidence of the interactions between child labour and health. The aim of the paper is to review the current state of such …

The diversity of potential relationships between child labor and health makes the empirical disentanglement of the … causal relationship a difficult exercise. This paper examines the long run impact of child labour on health by controlling … Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The …

This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … substantial evidence showing the intergenerational transmission of health, the literature investigating the impact of parental … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child …

the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in … significant impact stems from domestic remittances. -- migration ; remittances ; schooling ; child labour ; panel data ; Vietnam …

, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy. Five years subsequent to the child labor experience, they find significant … (young) adults who worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they …