Child labor and schooling responses to anticipated income in South Africa

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The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas (2012, unknown): “56 Edmonds (2006) and Edmonds and Schady (2009) provide evidence, in South Africa and Ecuador, respectively, that increasing household income through transfers reduces the allocation of children to labor and increases school attendance.”
Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks (2006, methodology): “Income transfers, such as initiation of the South African pension system, have been shown to increase children’s schooling and to reduce child labor (Edmonds, 2005).”
Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction (2017, unknown): “Village fixed effects control for unobserved village-specific factors (1)See, for example, Edmonds and Pavcnik (2006), Edmonds et al. (2010) and Shastry (2012). (2)See, for example, Atkin and Donaldson (2015), who show that domestic trade costs in developing countries can be considerably higher than”
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.”