Child Labor Laws and Household Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Penglase
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Fertility Decisions ◽  
Child Labor Laws

scholarly journals The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 1492-1524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Doepke ◽  
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Positive Theory ◽  
Fertility Decisions ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Child Labor Laws

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child labor laws. Workers who compete with children in the labor market support a child labor ban, unless their own working children provide a large fraction of family income. Fertility decisions lock agents into specific political preferences, and multiple steady states can arise. The introduction of child labor laws can be triggered by skill-biased technological change, which induces parents to choose smaller families. The theory can account for the observation that, in Britain, regulations were first introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapid fertility decline.

Child Labor Laws

1908 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 330-332
Author(s):  
Albert J. Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Child Labor Laws

scholarly journals Policy Entrepreneurs and the Origins of the Regulatory Welfare State: Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Labor Reform ◽  
Structural Class ◽  
Working Children ◽  
Child Labor Laws

Industrial child labor laws were the earliest manifestation of the modern regulatory welfare state. Why, despite the absence of political pressure from below, did some states (but not others) succeed in legislating working hours, minimum ages, and schooling requirements for working children in the first half of the nineteenth century? I use case studies of the politics behind the first child labor laws in Germany and France, alongside a case study of a failed child labor reform effort in Belgium, to answer this question. I show that existing structural, class-based, and institutional theories of the welfare state are insufficient to explain why child labor laws came about. Highlighting instead the previously neglected role of elite policy entrepreneurs, I argue that the success or failure of early nineteenth-century child labor laws depended on these actors’ social skill, pragmatic creativity, and goal-directedness. At the same time, their actions and influence were conditioned by their field position and the architecture of the policy field. By specifying the qualities and conditions that enable policy entrepreneurs to build the alliances needed to effect policy change, this analysis lends precision to the general claim that their agency matters.

scholarly journals Changing the Child Labor Laws for Agriculture: Impact on Injury

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Marlenga ◽  
Richard L. Berg ◽  
James G. Linneman ◽  
Robert J. Brison ◽  
William Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Child Labor Laws

Lenroot, Katharine Fredrica

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Syers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Child Labor Laws ◽  
The U.S

Katharine Fredrica Lenroot (1891–1982), praised for her contributions to child welfare, juvenile delinquency, and child labor laws, worked at the U.S. Children's Bureau for 37 years. She became its chief in 1934 and represented the United States at UNICEF.

The Impact of Child Labor Laws on the Kinds of Jobs Held by Young School-Leavers

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. B. Mitchell ◽  
John Clapp
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Child Labor Laws ◽  
The Impact
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