Inheritance Laws, Educational Attainment & Child Labor: Evidence from Indian States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Caitlin Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Inheritance Laws

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.

Does higher educational attainment imply less crime? Evidence from the Indian states

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-165
Author(s):  
Bijoy Rakshit ◽  
Yadawananda Neog
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of educational attainment on crime rates across 33 Indian states over the period 2001 to 2013. This paper also examines the role of various macroeconomic, socio-economic and demographic factors in determining the variation of crimes in India.Design/methodology/approachFirst, this paper provides a representative theoretical model and discusses the possible relationship between crime and education. Second, the paper applies a dynamic panel data (DPD) model to extract more precise, unbiased and reliable estimates of the effect of education in abating different crime rates. The main advantage of using the dynamic panel model is to address the problem of endogeneity in some regressors and capture the time persistent effect of education on crime.FindingsEmpirical findings reveal that a 1% increase in gross enrolment ratio leads to the reduction of total crime by 8%. However, a unique finding identifies a positive association between tertiary education and economic crime. This finding further goes against the general belief that criminals tend to be less educated than non-criminals.Practical implicationsThis paper recommends that instead of punishment and mandatory law enforcement for offenders, increase in government expenditure and different educational attainment ratios can go a long way to combat crime in India, which has posed a serious threat to the stability of society. Furthermore, utilizing the information on offenders' educational attainment in examining the crime rates can be a future research agenda for policymakers.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the empirical debate of ‘crime-education nexus’ by examining the role of education on crime in India. This study is the first of its kind that focuses on the aspects of crime and education more recently and investigates the relationship between crime and education due to the recent changes in educational attainment ratios and crime rate.

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.

Educational Attainment And Child Labor Status Among Disabled Children In Tamil Nadu, India: An Econometric Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ipsita Rakshit ◽  
Tulasi M Maharatha ◽  
Anviksha Drall ◽  
Sabuj Kumar Mandal ◽  
Rekha Ravindran
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Econometric Analysis ◽  
Disabled Children

scholarly journals Child Labor, Gender, and Health

2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (6) ◽  
pp. 642-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Leinberger-Jabari ◽  
David L. Parker ◽  
Charles Oberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Gender And Health ◽  
Generational Poverty

It is often forgotten that child labor is part of a multi-generational problem due in part to the failure to educate girls. Although the literacy rate for women has improved over the last two decades, in many countries it is less than half that of their male counterparts. This in turn leads to nutritional deficiencies, poverty, and poor health. While many researchers address the immediate health effects of child labor on the child laborers, this article addresses the issue of child labor from a broader perspective, one that identifies child labor as a contributor to inter-generational poverty, malnutrition, and limited educational attainment. Child labor and nutrition are important issues in both educational attainment and health status.

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