Kumar, Alok - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 64-68
This paper studies the effects of son-preference by parents and earnings function bias on child labor and schooling in … a model in which parents are altruistic. It finds that son-preference leads to gender differential in child labor with … labor. Son-preference magnifies gender differential in child labor and schooling in the presence of dowry and marriage …