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Child labor, rainfall shocks, and financial inclusion : evidence from rural households

Bernal, Carolina; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2023

This paper examines how rural households cope with climate change related rainfall shocks by re-allocating children's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an inter-temporal trade-off between current household income...

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Child work and cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 2, pp. 425-465

We study the impact of child work on cognitive development in four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries. We advance the literature by using cognitive test scores collected regardless of school attendance. We also address a key gap in the literature by controlling for children's complete time...

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Why children study, work or stay idle? : some evidence from rural Pakistan

Khan, Muhammad Jehangir; Khan, Karim; Nazeer, Saima - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 30 (2020) 2, pp. 235-256

In thisstudy, we examine what does determine children's decisionsregarding schooling, work, and idleness in rural areas of Pakistan. In particular, we are interested in looking at the effect of children'sillness/disability on parental time allocation decisions with regard to their children....

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Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil

Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, André Portela - 2007

Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil Patrick M. Emerson and Andre Portela Souza An extensive survey data set of Brazilian households is used to test whether intrahousehold gender bias affects the decisions of mothers and fathers to send their sons and...

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Exploring education-induced bargaining power of women on household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa

Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 11, pp. 1-18

empowerment on six household welfare indicators: child labor, child school enrollment, female labor force participation, fertility …

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Temporary migration as a mechanism for lasting cultural change : evidence from Nepal

Janzen, Sarah; Noray, Savannah - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-55

When a husband migrates, his wife may control more household resources and therefore change how the household spends income. Given the prevalence of seasonal migration in developing countries, even these temporary changes could affect economic development. The extent to which these changes...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labor and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2012

Because credit and insurance markets are imperfect and intrafamily transfers and how children use their time outside school hours are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labor below its efficient level (if positive), and uses a...

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The Collective Model of the Household and an Unexpected Implication for Child Labor : Hypothesis and an Empirical Test

Basu, Kaushik; Ray, Ranjan - 2013

The authors use the collective model of the household and show, theoretically, that as the woman's power rises, child labor will initially fall, but beyond a point it will tend to rise again. A household with a balanced power structure between the husband and the wife is least likely to send its...

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Fertility decisions and the norm of intergenerational support to aging parents

Hsu, Minchung; Le, Thu Trang - In: International studies of economics 19 (2024) 1, pp. 151-165

This paper examines the impact of the social norm of intergenerational support to aging parents on fertility decisions … cycle model that endogenizes fertility choices and incorporates the expectation of transfers from children based on the … norm in 2000s. We conducted counterfactual experiments to explore the impact of the filial responsibility norm on fertility …

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Gender, Time Use, and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia - 2013

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household allocation of resources, comparing living standards, and estimating the behavioral effects of changes in policy variables. The first step in the exposition is to show...

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