Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work
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Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work

About this book

More than 190 million children under 15 are working 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 contains fresh knowledge to help better understand the relationship between child labor and the transition between school and work. It contains 11 original research papers by authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America as well as the United States and Europe. These papers offer insights and answers to issues such as: how to measure child labor; how the returns to education in the adult labor market affect children's school enrollment; how cash transfer programs affect schooling and children's participation in market and non-market activities; how child labor and schooling affect health; why children participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor; how children's time is allocated along gender lines; what role local labor demand plays in shaping the work and schooling decisions of children; and, how many hours of work can be undertaken before negative effects on school attendance are observed.

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Yes, you can access Child Labor and the Transition Between School and Work by Randall K.Q. Akee,Eric V. Edmonds,Konstantinos Tatsiramos in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Labour Economics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Child Labor and The Transition between School and Work
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. List of contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Selection into worst forms of child labor
  8. Chapter 2. Household poverty and child labor decisions in Malawi
  9. Chapter 3. How much work is too much? Effects of child work hours on schooling - the case of Egypt
  10. Chapter 4. Lifetime health consequences of child labor in Brazil
  11. Chapter 5. Measuring child labor: comparisons between hours data and subjective measures
  12. Chapter 6. Allocation of childrenā€™s time along gender lines: Work, school, and domestic work in Brazil
  13. Chapter 7. The impact of conditional cash transfer programs on household work decisions in Brazil
  14. Chapter 8. Intra-household time allocation in rural Mexico: Evidence from a randomized experiment
  15. Chapter 9. Leveling the intra-household playing field: compensation and specialization in child labor allocation
  16. Chapter 10. Adult returns to schooling and childrenā€™s school enrollment: theory and evidence from South Africa
  17. Chapter 11. Local labor demand and child work