Is There a Child Labor Trap? Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil
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Is There a Child Labor Trap? Inter-Generational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil
This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building an overlapping generations model of the household child labor decision. We assume that this decision is made by the head of the household, where parents decide to send their child to work only if by doing so the child’s contri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Development and Cultural Change
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0013-0079,1539-2988
DOI: 10.1086/346003