Disparities in Access to Educational Media and Child Labor

Child Labor, Income Shocks, and Access to Credit*

Although a growing theoretical literature points to credit constraints as an important source of inefficiently high child labor, little work has been done to assess its empirical relevance. Using panel data from Tanzania, we find that households respond to transitory income shocks by increasing child labor, but that the extent to which child labor is used as a buffer is lower when households ha...

Evidence for Policy Making: Health Services Access and Regional Disparities in Kerman

Background and purpose: Health indices, regarding to their role in the development of society, are one of the most important indices at national level. Success of national development programs is largely dependent on the establishment of appropriate goals at the health sector, among which access to healthcare facilities is an essential requirement. The aim of this study was to examine the dispa...

Disparities in child access to emergency care for acute oral injury.

OBJECTIVE We examined the impact of insurance status on dental practices' willingness to schedule an appointment for a child with a symptomatic fractured permanent front tooth. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between February and May 2010, 6 research assistants posed as mothers of a 10-year-old boy seeking an urgent dental appointment. Two calls 4 weeks apart, with the same clinical scenario, were made ...

Health disparities and access to health.

Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries

This paper examines the relationship between child labor and access to credit at a crosscountry level. Even though this link is theoretically central to child labor, so far there has been little work done to assess its importance empirically. We measure child labor as a country aggregate, and credit constraints are proxied by the extent of financial development. These two variables display a st...