How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). We find robust evidence that increased climate variability in...

Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children. Rather child poverty has followed ...

Despite an overall slowing population growth, the Asia–Pacific region still contains over 64 per cent of the global population 2 and some of the most densely populated places in the world. The region is very diverse in terms of cultures, territories, religions, languages and economic development. Such diversity is also reflected in the statistics available for child protection, with birth regis...

once accompanied him to a miserable hovel in the West Port, and found there a poorly nourished, wretched looking woman in the pains of labour. On inquiry, she was doubtful about her exact age, and stated this to be her second pregnancy?her first child having been still-born about two years before, after a labour of three days' duration. Her condition during her present pregnancy had been fair, ...

This book written by the well-known author of the Revelation of Child-birth, Dr. Grantly Dick Read, is a very illuminating one. All. those who are interested in obstetrics, specially in the preventive obstetrics, will benefit immensely by this newer light on physiological labour. Dr. Read's experience and his conviction of a painless labour is shown in the clear decisive way he has represented ...

"Although the determinants of teenager participation in the labour market have been studied previously (both in the United States and the United Kingdom), there remain a number of neglected questions. We address some of these in this paper, basing our analysis on data taken from the UK National Child Development Study. We first examine how teenagers divide their time between working and studyin...

Labour induction and augmentation with Prostaglandin and Oxytocin are well established as standard practice worldwide. They are safe when used judiciously, but may be associated with maternal and neonatal morbidities. Other safer alternatives have been studied including dates consumption during late pregnancy with various outcomes. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate ...

This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than others, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics, on child labour and child schoolin...

This paper develops a model of intellectual labor augmentation to explain both the marriage wage premium and educational assortative mating. We suggest that husbands and wives are complementary factors of production where a spouse’s education and skills augment their partner’s productivity and earnings potential. We test this proposition using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and th...