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Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2011

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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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

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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The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - 2014

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

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The Quantity and Quality of Children: A Semi-Parametric Bayesian IV Approach

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Halla, Martin; Posekany, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

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The influence of market wages and parental history on child labour and schooling in Egypt

Wahba, Jackline - 2005

This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour, when this decision is jointly determined with child schooling, using data from Egypt. The empirical results suggest that low adult market wages are key determinants of child...

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2004

The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...

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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health

Lindo, Jason M. - 2013

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Son preference and children's housework: The case of India

Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households …

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