scholarly journals Determinants of Child Labor and School Attendance: The Role of Household Unobservables

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Partha Deb ◽  
Furio C. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
School Attendance

scholarly journals Idiosyncratic Shocks, Child Labor and School Attendance in Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Bayu Kharisma
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Household Income ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Crop Loss ◽  
Idiosyncratic Shocks ◽  
Formal And Informal Institutions ◽  
Household Assets

This paper investigates the effect of various idiosyncratic shocks against child labor, child labor hour and school attendance. Also, the role of the assets held by households as one of the coping strategies to mitigate the effects of shocks. The results show that various idiosyncratic shocks that encourage child labor is generally caused by crop loss, a disease suffered by the head or member of the household, a decrease in household income due to lower prices and the quantity produced and the death of the head or a family member. This indicates that households are not sheltered from the idiosyncratic shocks and restricted access to formal and informal institutions. Other findings show a variety of idiosyncratic shocks does not affect child labor hour and the school attendance. Additionally, household assets play an important role in reducing the number of child labor and increase school attendance but do not affect the child labor hour during a variety of idiosyncratic shocks.

Child Labor, School Attendance, and Intrahousehold Gender Bias in Brazil

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Emerson ◽  
André Portela Souza
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Labor School

scholarly journals CHILD LABOR AND THE EDUCATION OF A SOCIETY

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Bell ◽  
Hans Gersbach
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Continuous Growth

This paper analyzes policies by means of which a whole society in an initial state of illiteracy and low productivity can raise itself into a condition of continuous growth. Using an overlapping generations model in which human capital is formed through child rearing and formal education, we show that an escape from a poverty trap, in which children work full time and no human capital accumulation takes place, is possible through compulsory education or programs of taxes and transfers. If school attendance is unenforceable, temporary inequality is unavoidable if the society is to escape in finite time, but long-run inequalities are avoidable provided sufficiently heavy, but temporary, taxes can be imposed on the better off. Programs that aim simply at high attendance rates in the present can be strongly nonoptimal.

A Multivariate Model Of Child Labor and School Attendance

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-173
Author(s):  
Leif Jensen ◽  
David Abler ◽  
Héctor Robles-Vásquez ◽  
Patricia Muñoz-Salazar ◽  
David Post
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Multivariate Model

scholarly journals Recovery High School Attendance Effects on Student Delinquency and Substance Use: the Moderating Role of Social Problem Solving Styles

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1104-1113
Author(s):  
Emily E. Tanner-Smith ◽  
Lindsey M. Nichols ◽  
Christopher M. Loan ◽  
Andrew J. Finch ◽  
D. Paul Moberg
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Recovery High School ◽  
High School Attendance ◽  
Moderating Role

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.

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