of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Two waves of household panel data for years 2006 and 2008 from the …

I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of … children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on … - higher ability children are more likely to be enrolled in school and less likely to work and, conditional on participation …

employment increases opportunities for adults outside the household, and may correspondingly raise the returns to children … program substantially increased children's school attendance in addition to reducing child labor. My empirical strategy …

Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage …

This paper estimates the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on the household decision about children’s time allocation … about children’s time through its magnitude and household’s revealed vulnerability. Separated measures of the earthquake … allocation of children 10 to 17 years old. We are also able to analyze the differentiated effect on market and domestic work. Our …

by controlling for children's complete time allocation budget. This allows us to estimate effects of different types of …

state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. …

Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … with the educational outcomes of children. As fertility declines, children's grade attainment rises, but their school …