Child labor and household wealth: Theory and empirical evidence of an inverted-U
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Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U
Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which suggests an inverted-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0304-3878
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.01.006