children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 … and economic contexts. -- Child labor ; migration ; India …

child labor. A unique data set from India that has child labor hours information confirms this hypothesis. It is shown that …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set … children have a higher probability to work. -- Child labour ; education ; women's work ; time allocation ; India …

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal … household types. -- child labor ; India ; informal lending ; lending discrimination ; interest rate caps …

Scheduled Tribes - on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the … Constitution of India. Using data from state and household level surveys on fifteen major Indian states, we find that at the … fragmentation, support for the Congress Party, and decentralization of power. …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …'s treatment. -- son preference ; child labor ; housework ; India ; National Family Health Survey …