scholarly journals Educational Attainment and Child Labor: Do Subsidies Work?

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Abhra Roy
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
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.

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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