Child labor versus educational attainment Some evidence from Latin America

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Psacharopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Child Labor

Child Labor, Schooling, and Poverty in Latin America

2009 ◽  
pp. 33-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Sedlacek ◽  
Suzanne Duryea ◽  
Nadeem Ilahi ◽  
Masaru Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Child Labor

Introduction Child Labor and Education in Latin America

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Peter F. Orazem ◽  
Guilherme Sedlacek ◽  
Zafiris Tzannatos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Child Labor

Long-Run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-174
Author(s):  
Richard B. Baker ◽  
John Blanchette ◽  
Katherine Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Boll Weevil ◽  
Black Children ◽  
The South ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Agricultural Shocks

The boll weevil spread across the South from 1892 to 1922 with devastating effect on cotton cultivation. The resulting shift away from this child labor–intensive crop lowered the opportunity cost of school attendance. We investigate the insect’s long-run effect on educational attainment using a sample of adults from the 1940 census linked back to their childhood census records. Both white and black children who were young (ages 4 to 9) when the weevil arrived saw increased educational attainment by 0.24 to 0.36 years. Our results demonstrate the potential for conflict between child labor in agriculture and educational attainment.

scholarly journals The scientific knowledge on child labor in Latin America

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilma Sousa Santana ◽  
Ligia Kiss ◽  
Anne Andermann
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Scientific Knowledge

Policy Options to Eradicate Child Labor and Promote Education in Latin America

2009 ◽  
pp. 207-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafiris Tzannatos ◽  
Peter F. Orazem ◽  
Guilherme Sedlacek
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Policy Options

The Development of an Educational System in a Rural Guatemalan Community

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar H. Horst ◽  
Avril McLelland
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Educational System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developing Nations ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
World Region ◽  
The World

In the United States there is a constant preoccupation with the qualitative aspects of our educational system. This occurs in a nation where over 98 per cent of all children between the ages of seven and fourteen are attending school and where over 95 per cent of all inhabitants are considered literate. Thus, in terms of literacy and level of education, the United States is classified as highly advanced. Not so fortunate are the developing nations of the world.Latin America, as a major world region, is classified as underdeveloped and shares many of the economic and social misfortunes which plague that sector of the world's populace. Within Latin America there is a wide diversity of educational attainment. Although seven nations may be classified as advanced or moderately advanced, these represent less than one quarter of the region's population. The vast majority are less advantaged and among these are the inhabitants of Guatemala. Less than one quarter of its children between the ages of seven and fourteen attend school; less than 30 per cent over ten years of age are considered literate.

Consumer Product Labels, Child Labor and Educational Attainment

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Drusilla K Brown
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Free Product ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Purchase Price ◽  
Standard Contract ◽  
Welfare Fund

AbstractChild labor-free product labels are efficiency-enhancing when child welfare is a public good only if resources are generated to enhance the well-being of children. However, for a small price-taking economy with at least as many goods as factors and competitively supplied labels, the premium paid by consumers is dissipated by a production inefficiency associated with the adult-only technology. Child labor will decline if labeling firms bid the adult wage above the threshold at which families begin to withdraw their children from the workforce. Alternatively, monitoring agencies may offer consumers a donation label, which claims that some fraction of the purchase price will be donated to a child-welfare fund. A donation label is more efficient than the child labor-free label as it eliminates the production inefficiency and the inefficient competition among certification agencies. The standard contract offered in the child labor free labeling sector has elements of a donation label.

scholarly journals Exploring trends in the relationship between child labour, gender and educational achievement in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Abigail Middel ◽  
Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara ◽  
Andrés Sandoval-Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Child Labour ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
Inequality In Education ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
The Relationship

Participation in child labour, in both household and non-household activities, gender effects and low educational attainment remain challenges for countries in Latin America. Through hierarchical linear modelling of data from the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study seeks to explore the current cross-country trends in the relationship between educational attainment, child labour and gender. While non-household labour is found to have an effect, as per statistical significance and the magnitude, on educational achievement across all Latin American countries; participation in household labour is significant in only two countries (Peru and Uruguay). Girls are found to underperform compared to boys by a significant margin across Latin America. The later part of the study seeks to examine the interaction effects of gender and participation in labour activities. Results show that gender has no moderating effect, suggesting that participation in work itself or workspace (household or non-household) does not influence or contribute to gender inequality in education outcomes. The explanatory factors for gender inequality in education outcomes are potentially rooted in a different sphere of influence which needs to be deciphered through deeper empirical investigation.

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