Child Labor and the Transition between School and Work

Outline

More than 190 million children are estimated to be economically active in the world today. Academic and policy research on child labor and related questions about how children spend their time in low-income countries has boomed in recent years. This volume collects recent advances in the empirical literature that aims to understand why children work and what the consequences of that work are for children. It contains 11 original research papers by authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as the United States and Europe. These chapters offer insights and answers to questions such as, Why children participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor? How to measure child labor? How child labor and schooling affect health? How many hours of work can be undertaken before negative effects on school attendance are observed? How cash transfer programs affect schooling and children’s participation in market and non-market activities? How children’s time is allocated along gender lines? How the returns to education and local labor demand in the adult labor market affect schooling decisions of children?

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Chapters

• Eric V. Edmonds Selection into worst forms of child labor
• Levison S. Chiwaula Household poverty and child labor decisions in Malawi
• Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison, Hai-Anh Dang How much work is too much? Effects of child work hours on schooling – the case of Egypt
• Chanyoung Lee, Peter F. Orazem Lifetime health consequences of child labor in Brazil
• Andrew Dillon Measuring child labor: comparisons between hours data and subjective measures
• Diana I. Kruger, Matias Berthelon, Rodrigo R. Soares Allocation of children's time along gender lines: Work, school, and domestic work in Brazil
• Andrea R. Ferro, Ana Lúcia Kassouf, Deborah Levison The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil
• Marta Rubio-Codina Intra-household time allocation in rural Mexico: Evidence from a randomized experiment
• Ximena V. Del Carpio, Karen Macours Leveling the intra-household playing field: compensation and specialization in child labor allocation
• Sarah Donovan, Kenneth A. Swinnerton Adult returns to schooling and children's school enrollment: theory and evidence from South Africa
• Marco Manacorda, Furio Camillo Rosati Local labor demand and child work

• Volume Details
• Editors Randall K.Q. Akee, Eric V. Edmonds, Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• Publication date 19 May 2010
• ISBN 978-0-85724-000-2
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec