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Local Labor Demand and Child Labor
This paper uses micro data from the Brazilian PNAD between 1981 and 2002 to ascertain the role of local labor demand play in shaping work and schooling decisions of children aged 10-15. Using male adult employment by state and year as a proxy for labor demand, we find evidence that contrary to the widespread view that child labor is procyclical among young children (ages 1012) employment (schoo...
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Bonded labor has been already widespread since ancient times and has flourished at various periods in most countries. Bonded labor is outlawed by the 1956 U.N. Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and most countries have passed their own ban. However, it is estimated that millions of people are still held in bo...
متن کاملThe economics of child labor.
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متن کامل1 Child Labor , Schooling , and Child Ability
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children’s cognitive abilities influence households’ decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, we use rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to instrument for ability. Negative shocks in utero lead to 0.24 standard deviations lower ability z-scores, corresponding wi...
متن کاملThe Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor
Although there is an extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence of the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. We evaluate the causal effect of child labor participation on these outcomes using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy. Fiv...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy
سال: 1905
ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X
DOI: 10.1086/251129