Rotten Parents and Child Labor

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Baland and Robinson (2000) investigate the conditions under which decisions by parents about their own children’s work are inefficient. Using a simple two-period model with altruistically linked family members, they show that child labor decisions are efficient when credit markets are perfect and intergenerational altruistic transfers are nonzero. Moreover, they show that when the level of chil...

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Political Economy

سال: 2004

ISSN: 0022-3808,1537-534X

DOI: 10.1086/379938