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, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they estimate that from age 30 …
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the 100 villages surveys that was used to examine changes in health status, school attendance rates, and children …. Children's health status appears to be relatively stable, although comparisons of indicators of children's health status over …
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Many policy instruments can be used to address or affect child labor, even if they are implemented to achieve other objectives. From a theoretical point of view, however, the impact of these policies on child labor is undetermined. This paper discusses the evidence generated by rigorous...
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Even though access to credit is central to child labor theoretically, little work has been done to assess its importance empirically. Dehejia and Gatti examine the link between access to credit and child labor at a cross-country level. The authors measure child labor as a country aggregate, and...
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Although a growing theoretical literature points to credit constraints as an important source of inefficiently high child labor, little work has been done to assess its empirical relevance. Using panel data from Tanzania, the authors find that households respond to transitory income shocks by...
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This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine … hospital than in the nearest primary health clinic; and (iv) the respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of …
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Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries … India's Total Sanitation Campaign, a large government program that encouraged local governments to build and promote use of …
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among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health …
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This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey …
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This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … international studies. The study estimates the total cost of environmental degradation in India at about 3.75 trillion rupees (US$80 …
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