scarce, parental investments in their children's education may not be driven entirely by poverty and credit constraints. We … offer evidence that children's participation in child labor and schooling responds to economic returns to education in India …In an environment where children's time has an economic value and employment opportunities for educated workers are …

technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … and sisters, male children, and the children from educated parents; high-income households; smaller households; wealthy …

This paper examines the channels through which education affects household earnings in environments where wages are … unobserved. Utilizing data from rural Peru, the empirical strategy decomposes the earnings returns to education into various wage … identification of unobserved wages. Results indicate that education affects earnings disproportionately more than hours, implying …

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that … the returns to education have been rising.Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In … this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how …

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … and education are often included. But these are not necessarily the most direct measures of the things that matter to … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of … mobility and find that these are present and associated with father’s education. …