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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se. This is motivated by the fact female labor force participation might be low in...
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period.model of the world economy, we predict that trade liberalization raises the skill premium and reduces child labour in developing countries where the adult labour force is sufficiently well educated to attract production activities from abroad that...
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The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any...
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Die Abschaffung von Kinderarbeit kann die Entwicklung von Humankapital fördern und ein Mittel für eine nachhaltige … Entwicklung der betroffenen Länder darstellen. Kinderarbeit hat jedoch trotz einer deutlichen Verringerung der Armut in Subsahara … besteht: Erstens untersucht die Studie Auswirkungen von Änderungen in Lebensmittelpreisen auf Kinderarbeit. Im zweiten Kapitel …
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In 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour. The analysis suggests that the transfer increases the...
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