Child Labor and the Transition Between School and WorkMore than 190 million children under 15 are working in the world today. Academic and policy research on child labor and related questions about how children spend their time in low income countries has boomed in recent years. This volume contains fresh knowledge to help better understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. It contains 11 original research papers by authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as the United States and Europe. These papers offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how the returns to education in the adult labor market affect children's school enrollment; how cash transfer programs affect schooling and children's participation in market and non-market activities; how child labor and schooling affect health; why children participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor; how children's time is allocated along gender lines; what role local labor demand plays in shaping the work and schooling decisions of children; and, how many hours of work can be undertaken before negative effects on school attendance are observed. |
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Contents
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Chapter 2 Household poverty and child labor decisions in Malawi | 33 |
Chapter 3 How much work is too much? Effects of child work hours on schooling the case of Egypt | 53 |
Chapter 4 Lifetime health consequences of child labor in Brazil | 99 |
comparisons between hours data and subjective measures | 135 |
Work school and domestic work in Brazil | 161 |
Chapter 7 The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil | 193 |
Evidence from a randomized experiment | 219 |
compensation and specialization in child labor allocation | 259 |
theory and evidence from South Africa | 297 |
Chapter 11 Local labor demand and child work | 321 |
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รรร activities adult employment adult health age of labor agriculture allocation attending school attributable risk average beneficiary Bolsa Escola boys Brazil CCT program characteristics child labor supply children aged children’s school coefficients column conditional cash transfer correlated decisions dependent variable descriptive statistics Development domestic chores dummies Economics Edmonds eligible empirical equations estimates exogenous female gender girls hours data household members human capital impact incidence income effect increase instruments International Labour Organization intra-household labor and schooling labor demand Labor Economics labor force labor market entry leisure liquidity constraints Malawi males mothers negative Nepal number of hours observed Oportunidades P-value parents participation percent PNAD population porters poverty probit ragpicking rate of return reduced regression reported Research responses returns to education rural areas sample school attendance school enrollment siblings Skoufias specification survey Table tobit model treatment wage WFCL World Bank worst forms
Bibliographic information
| Title | Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work Research in Labor Economics |
| Authors | Randall K.Q. Akee, Eric V. Edmonds, Konstantinos Tatsiramos |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0857240013, 9780857240019 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Industrial Management Business & Economics / Labor / General |
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