Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?

By Eric V. Edmonds. The Journal of human resources, 2003

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Subfields: Development, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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How Much Are We Willing To Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School?: Simulating Changes to Mexico`s Oportunidades in Urban Areas (2009, unknown): “Improvement in household economic status (via transfers or wages) tends to decrease child labor and increase school attendance (Edmonds, 2005 and 2006; Cardoso and Souza, 2004; Bourguignon, Ferreira and Leite, 2003).”
Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor (2008, background): “The lower school attendance rates among children who work for pay outside of the household across countries can be explained by differences in hours worked (Edmonds 2007). Work for pay outside of the household may be associated with less flexibility in hours worked and greater intensity for all of t”
Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U (2007, unknown): “This is often treated as an axiom in this literature and there is a lot of evidence that supports this view (for discussion see Basu and Van, 1998; Basu 1999; Ray, 2000; Basu and Tzannatos, 2003; Emerson and Souza, 2003; Edmonds, 2005; Edmonds and Pavcnik, 2005).”
Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks (2006, methodology): “Section 5 provides empirical evidence on the prevalence of shocks and on the sporadic nature of school attendance and work among children in the rural communities observed.”
The effect of trade liberalization on child labor (2005, background): “Edmonds, N. Pavcnik / Journal of International Economics 65 (2005) 401–419 402”
A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (2005, unknown): “3See, e.g., Grootaert & Kanbur (1995), Canagarajah & Coulombe (1997), Grootaert (1998), Moe (1998), Anker (2000), Cigno & Rosati (2000, 2002), Edmonds (2003, 2004). of child labour.”