Search Results - subject:"wealth paradox"

Child labor and its determinants: An empirical test of the luxury axiom-cum the wealth paradox theory

Gebregziabher, Kidanemariam; Hadush, Muuz; Abrha, Kebede - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-21

poverty (luxury) hypothesis or wealth paradox theories. The data for this study is the Young Lives project, consisting of 1803 … to be positively related to child labor, consistent with the wealth paradox. However, the wealth index, except in the two …

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Child labor and its determinants : an empirical test of the luxury axiom-cum the wealth paradox theory

Gebregziabher, Kidanemariam; Hadush, Muuz; Abrha, Kebede - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-21

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Does poverty influence prevalence of child labour in developing countries?

Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku; Zaleha Mohd Noor; Rusmawati Said; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 6 (2016) 1, pp. 7-12

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Child labor, schooling and household wealth in African rural area: luxury axiom or wealth paradox

Aïda, KOISSY KPEIN Sandrine - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012

link between household wealth and child labor. It opposes “wealth paradox” approach of Bhalotra and Heady (2003) to “luxury …

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Family farming, child labour and the wealth paradox: evidence from Mali

Boutin, Delphine - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 3471-3479

Possession of land is often associated with higher levels of child labour. This paper will look closer at the â€œwealth paradoxâ€ by testing in rural Mali the relationship between landownership and one of the hidden forms of child labour, namely family-based work. We also experiment a...

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THE LUXURY AXIOM, THE WEALTH PARADOX, AND CHILD LABOR

Fan, C. Simon - In: Journal of Economic Development 36 (2011) 3, pp. 25-45

substitution axiom. A number of empirical studies, however, reveal a ¡°wealth paradox¡±. The current paper has two aims. First, it … develops a model that provides an explanation for ¡°the wealth paradox¡± in light of the luxury axiom and the substitution …

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The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor

Congdon Fors, Heather - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the e¤ect of credit market imperfections on child labor di¤ers between households that save and households that borrow. This in turn is important for the interpretation of...

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Child Farm Labor: The Wealth Paradox

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Christopher - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2003

estimates obtained using survey data from rural Pakistan and Ghana. The main result is that the 'wealth paradox' persists for …

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