Is There a Child Labor Trap? Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil*

By P. Emerson, A. P. Souza. Economic development and cultural change, 2003

255 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research

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3. Kaushik Basu
4. J. Wahba

In Nutrition and Dietetics

1. Z. Tzannatos
2. Kaushik Basu
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2. Z. Tzannatos
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6. Norbert R. Schady
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Citations in the corpus

• Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U (2007, unknown): “Lemma 1 The value of e that optimizes ( 10 ) is always such that e + 1 10 ) it is obvious that as k rises e will first rise and then fall.”
• The Global Child Labor Problem : What Do We Know and What Can We Do? (2003, methodology): “The same phenomenon was modeled and empirically tested by Emerson and Souza (2003) using National Household Survey data for Brazil.”
• The influence of market wages and parental history on child labour and schooling in Egypt (2006, background): “Secondly, a recent paper by Emerson and Souza (2003) explore the evidence of intergenerational persistence of child labour.”
• Child Labor and School Achievement in Latin America (2006, background): “Moreover, evidence suggests that cognitive skills, rather than years of schooling, are the fundamental determinants of adult wages in developing countries (Glewwe 1996, Moll 1998).”