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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War : Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Galdo, José - 2010

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...

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Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. - 2014

Coca eradication and interdiction are the most common policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes, but little is known about their impact on households. This paper uses the shift in the production of coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the...

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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor

Epstein, Gil S. - 2009

We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various components presented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate the phenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration. It emerges that the remittances sent by the emigrating parents might...

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Son Preference and Children's Housework : The Case of India

Lin, Tin-Chi - 2012

as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …

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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply

Kim, Jungho - 2007

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …

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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2007

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2014

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some?

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2009

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire...

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