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How prosocial motives shape market exchange : experimental evidence from street vending

Jain, Ronak - 2026 - Revised version, January 2026

Markets are often seen as impersonal mechanisms of exchange, yet many real-world transactions are deeply social. This paper examines how prosocial motives interact with economic exchange and how this affects market outcomes. I study these questions in the context of street vending - a ubiquitous...

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How prosocial motives shape market exchange: Experimental evidence from street vending

Jain, Ronak - 2026

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Natural disasters and child labor in Brazil

Santos, Priscila S. dos; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia; … - 2026

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Anticipating unintended consequences of policy : learnings from Indonesia's child labor reform

Bimardhika, Elghafiky; Witoelar, Firman - 2025

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"The queen of inventions" : how home technology shaped women's work and children's futures

Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2025

This paper studies the impact of the home sewing machine on women's work and intergenerational mobility - an innovation that enabled women to generate income from within the household. Marketed directly to women as a tool for both domestic use and paid work, it provides a unique setting to...

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'The Queen of Inventions': How Home Technology Shaped Women's Work and Children's Futures

Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2025

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"The queen of inventions" : how home technology shaped women's work and children's futures

Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2025

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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2025

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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2022

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Child labor bans, employment, and school attendance : evidence from changes in the minimum working age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2022

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Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance : Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age

Kozhaya, Mireille; Martínez Flores, Fernanda - 2022

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Child work in developing countries : revisiting the differences and similarities between income-generating and care and domestic work

Camilletti, Elena; Gassmann, Franziska; Groot, Wim; … - 2025

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Unconditional cash transfers and child welfare in Turkey : short-term evidence from the family support program

Aygün, Aysun - 2025

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Matrilineal kinship norms and gender gaps in labor market outcomes

Reichert, Arndt R.; Simon, Anne; Sowa, Alina; Strupat, … - 2025

In this study, we investigate the role of matrilineal kinship norms for gender gaps in labor market outcomes. We analyze the implementation of a reform that significantly altered the customary inheritance system by restricting practices within matrilineal ethnic groups, while those of...

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Threshold effects of extreme heat on schooling and child labor in rural Bangladesh

Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar; Karim, Ridwan - 2025

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Entrepreneurs of emotions : evidence from street vending in India

Jain, Ronak - 2024

Street vending is an important source of self-employment for the urban poor. I combine observational, survey, and experimental data from Delhi to study this market. Partnering with vendors to randomize prices and passersby they solicit, I find that even with identical goods, child vendors are...

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Entrepreneurs of emotions: Evidence from street vending in India

Jain, Ronak - 2024

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Parental educational attainment and child labor : evidence from Malawi

Abaidoo, Eric - 2024

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School performance and child paid work : evidence from West Bank schools

Hallaq, Sameh; Khalifah, Ayman - 2024

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Double-booked : effects of overlap between school and farming calendars on education and child labor

Allen, James E. - 2024

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The scars of child labor : links with youth employment and earnings

Tato, Gidisa Lachisa; Alem, Yonas - 2026

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Child labor and its determinants : an empirical test of the luxury axiom-cum the wealth paradox theory

Gebregziabher, Kidanemariam; Hadush, Muuz; Abrha, Kebede - 2023

The paper was motivated to test whether the high child labor prevalence observed in Ethiopia is explained by the poverty (luxury) hypothesis or wealth paradox theories. The data for this study is the Young Lives project, consisting of 1803 children units (a total of 7212 children in four...

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Remittances and child labor in Pakistan : a tale of complementarities

Bang, James T.; Mitra, Aniruddha; Abbas, Faisal - 2023

We investigate the impact of remittance income on the household decision to send a child to work. Using data from a Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey conducted in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2014, we isolate the causal impact of remittance income by employing statistical matching to...

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Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old-age mortality

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - 2023

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Business ethics challenges and a comprehensive understanding of tackling child labor in turkey

Kula, Mehmet Emirhan; YarbaSi, İkram Yusuf - 2023

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Conditional cash transfers tools to combat child labor : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Costa Rica

Meza-Cordero, Jaime A. - 2023

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The impact of parental health shocks on child schooling and labor : evidence from Thailand

Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2023

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Child labour among Afghan refugee children : investigating the underlying drivers

Khan, Muhammad Ajmal - 2023

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Changes in children's time use, India 1998-2019

Gibson, Matthew; Jagnani, Maulik; Pullabhotla, Hemant - 2023

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Quality of school service delivery human capital and child labor : empirical evidence from Indonesia

Dawood, Taufiq Carnegie; Siregar, Muhammad Ichsan; … - 2023

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How Does Public Assistance Affect Children in Disadvantaged Families? Evidence from Türkiye’s Family Support Program

Hiziroglu Aygun, Aysun - 2025

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Matrilineal kinship norms and gender gaps in labor market outcomes

Reichert, Arndt R.; Simon, Anne; Sowa, Alina; Strupat, … - 2025

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When women work, children thrive : gender-specific employment shocks and child abuse deaths

Oikawa, Masato; Toyono, Takumi; Noguchi, Haruko; … - 2025

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Does the Scottish child payment weaken work incentives?

Nesom, Suzanna; Stewart, Kitty; Tominey, Emma - 2025

The Scottish Child Payment (SCP), introduced in 2021, provides cash transfers for families with children receiving Universal Credit (UC) or related benefits. The eligibility link to UC can create a potential cliff-edge at that threshold of eligibility - the decision to work one more hour can...

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Empirical analysis of child labour, household poverty, and child health in Ghana

Adabor, Opoku - 2025

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Child penalties and marriage dissolution

Ayllón, Sara; Kirkpatrick, Linda; Plum, Alexander - 2025

This paper investigates how a change in marital status can influence labour market-related child penalties, by comparing married couples and those whose marriage is dissolved after the birth of their first child. We take advantage of the rich administrative data from New Zealand and show that...

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Adjustments to reduced cash transfers : religious safety nets and children's long-term outcomes

Gershoni, Naomi; Gihleb, Rania; Kott, Assaf; Mansour, Hani - 2025

This paper examines how access to informal insurance shapes family responses to reductions in social welfare benefits, and how these adjustments affect children's development. In 2003, Israel reformed its child allowance program, significantly reducing unconditional cash benefits for large...

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Does the timing of productivity shocks in childhood affect educational attainment?

Noritomo, Yuma - 2025

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Children in the EU

2025

Das Herunterladen und Vervielfältigen ist gemäß den Bestimmungen der Richtlinie 2003/98/EG des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 17. November 2003 über die Weiterverwendung von Informationen des öffentlichen Sektors und des Beschlusses der Kommission vom 12. Dezember 2011 über die...

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Children in the EU

2024

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The age gradient in the effects of poverty alleviation program on schooling : evidence from the Vietnam hunger eradication and poverty reduction program

Bertoni, Marco; Quynh Huynh; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2025

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Contextualizing child labor reforms : education policy, legal bans, and female child labor in rural South India

Posso, Alberto - 2025

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Child labour : global estimates 2024 : trends and the road forward

2025

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Parental informal occupation does not significantly deter children's school performance : a case study of peri-urban Kathmandu, Nepal

Thapa-Parajuli, Resham; Bhattarai, Sujan; Pokharel, Bibek; … - 2025

This paper investigated how parents' informal work relates to their children's academic performance. We interviewed the heads of households with 83 school-aged children in peri-urban Kathmandu to obtain information on parental occupation and child schooling. We also interviewed key informants...

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Islamic worldview, social consciousness, and socially responsible investment

Shahid, Ahmad Usman; Patel, Chris; Pan, Peipei - 2025

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Understanding child sex trafficking by use of victim-level data

Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Kuecken, Maria; La Ferrara, … - 2025

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Ending child labour : implementation of SDG 8.7 : this study was commissioned by Dreikönigsaktion der Katholischen Jungschar (DKA) as part of the project "Mach dich stark gegen Kinderarbeit" (Take a stand against child labour) by the alliance "Kinderarbeit stoppen" (Stop Child Labour)

Papatheophilou, Simela; Tröster, Bernhard - 2025

Despite SDG target 8.7 aiming to eliminate child labour by 2025, 137.6 million children remain affected worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for action. Effective approaches go beyond prohibition, addressing root causes through social protection, education, decent work, and childcare systems,...

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Child labour and the persistence of inequality : evidence from the world's least mobile country

Ciaschi, Matias; Negre, Mario; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2025

In this paper, we present comprehensive evidence on intergenerational mobility in Mozambique- the country with the lowest documented level of mobility worldwide-and investigate its relationship with child labour. Using survey data that include a module on non-co-resident adult children, we...

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Estimating how much children work : questionnaires versus time use diaries

Lamote de Grignon Pérez, Juana; Blanco Allais, Federico; … - 2025

Current estimates of child labour often rely on questions such as, "How many hours did you work last week?" While biases in adult self-reports are well-documented in high-income countries, there is limited evidence on the accuracy of children's responses in low- and middle-income countries...

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Does distance matter? : firm proximity, child labour and education

Saunders, Aubrey Keeler; Brazys, Samuel - 2025

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Access to electricity and gendered labor allocation : insights from Ethiopia

Pieper, Theresa; Nguyen, Thanh Tung; Qaim, Matin - 2025

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The child labor in social media : kidfluencers, ethics of care, and exploitation

Clark, Daniel R.; Jno-Charles, Alisa B. - 2025

Kidfluencing, a social media business in which children serve as primary influencers of audience opinions or behavior, is a rapidly growing entrepreneurial phenomenon where parents build enterprises around the likability and antics of their children. Proponents argue that kidfluencing is simply...

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