Is Child Labor Inefficient?

By J. Baland, James A. Robinson. Journal of Political Economy, 2000

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor (2008, background): “Basu, Das, and Dutta (2009) emphasize that the luxury axiom can be viewed as a characterization of the child labor decision in a model with more standard (continuous) preferences.”
Child Labor in the Global Economy (2005, background): “Several theoretical studies emphasize that if credit markets allowed households to borrow against future earnings, child labor could be much reduced (Baland and Robinson, 2000; Ranjan, 2001).”
Labor Standards: Where Do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda? (2001, background): “Although much attention is focused on poverty as the root cause of child labor, Baland and Robinson (2000) refocus on the role of capital market failure.”
Birth Order, Child Labor, and School Attendance in Brazil (2008, background): “Family size has been found to have negative developmental effects likely due to the fact that family resources are spread more thinly the 1 See also Basu, 1999, 2001; Baland and Robinson, 2000; Emerson and Portela Souza, 2001.”
The effect of trade liberalization on child labor (2005, background): “In addition, Basu and Van (1998) emphasize the importance of household income in determining child labor in a setting where child labor is considered a bad in parental preferences, while Baland and Robinson (2000) focus on the role of liquidity constraints.”
Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence (2009, neutral): “10 There is also a theoretical literature that models the role of household access to credit in determining the extent of child labor: see Parsons and Goldin, 1989; Baland and Robinson 2000; and Jafarey and Lahiri 2002.”
Child labor and agricultural shocks (2006, positive): “Second, our work explores the role of asset holdings in determining a household’s response to shocks, and as such relates to both the recent theoretical literature on the role of credit constraints in explaining child labor ( Baland and Robinson, 2000; Ranjan, 2001) and the buffer stock literature ”
Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints (2003, background): “1 Theoretical Perspectives on Child Labor Basu [1999] partitions the child labor literature into two groups: papers that examine intrahousehold bargaining (between parents, or parents and children) and those that examine extrahousehold bargaining (where the household is a single unit and bargains wi”
A Theory of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (2005, neutral): “In Baland & Robinson (2000), those two activities are substitutes: the more child labour children perform, the lower their human capital, hence earning potential, as adults.”
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks (2008, neutral): “Economic models of child labour, such as Baland and Robinson (2000) or Basu and Van (1998), consider unitary households deciding on the amount of child labour in some initial period of life.”