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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Child Labor"”.
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Understanding the Relationship Between Poverty, Education and Child Labor: An Analysis of Child Labor in Nigeria
Two major ideas dominate past literature on child labor. First, past literature continues to support the well-developed relationship between poverty and rates of child labor. Second, past literature continues to associate school attendance as the primary opportunity cost of child labor and …
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Essays on Child Labor and Inequality
… explanation of an odd relationship between child labor and per capita land holding in a household, and then provides empirical evidence for the explanation. Finally, the third chapter represents the results of a study of the behavior of rural households during shocks. Across the entire …
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Essays on the Economics of Child Labor and Fertility
This dissertation analyses the economic development of societies in which parents decide about not only education but also fertility. The parents' decisions are motivated by both financial and altruistic reasons. We focus on human capital formation and population growth as the determinants of …
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Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia
… conflict to estimate the impact of conflict on children’s timeallocation to two different types of work: housework and work performed outsidethe household for poor families living in small municipalities in Colombia. I findthat conflict significantly increases the amount of time children …
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Going beyond poverty : parents' decisions about child labor and schooling
This dissertation focuses on the analysis of child labor in Mexico. It examines how families make decisions about child labor and schooling in a context of poverty and marginalization. I argue that the impact of poverty is mediated by cultural and social factors that determine activities done by …
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The Elimination Model versus The Protection Model: Analysis of Child Labor Policies in Peru and Bolivia (2014-2026)
… ideological and practical tensions surrounding child labor policies in the Global South, with a specific focus on the comparative legal frameworks of Bolivia and Peru. </p> <p>While international human rights instruments, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) …
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Pekerja anak dibawah umur pada UD. Prima di Tulungagung: Tinjauan Undang-undang No. 13 Tahun 2002 tentang ketenagakerjaan dan hukum Islam
… terdapat dalam Islam. ENGLISH: The problem of child labor as one of the type of labor has long been problems in the world of education, many concerns which came up with the existence of child labor. The problem of child labor in indonesia is not can be addressed with the choice may or not. …
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Destroying old myths while building development : lessons from the Sisal Region
In 1996, the Brazilian Government implemented the Child Labor Eradication Program - PETI, a conditional cash transfer program aimed at reducing child labor by paying a stipend to families who send their working children to an extended day program. After 12 years, PETI has had its most successful …
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The Photographic Lens of Lewis Wickes Hine and the Spaces In Between Progressive, Documentary, and Artistic Photography
… Lewis Wickes Hine is best known for his child labor photography from the National Child Labor Committee. This dissertation seeks to expand the understandings associated with Hine’s photography of Southern and Eastern European immigrants by examining his photography as both historical …
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The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Under Risk-Sharing Arrangements: Schooling and Consumption Smoothing in Rural Mexico
… with limited commitment that incorporates children's school attendance choices. The model is estimated using Mexican rural villages data from the PROGRESA experiment and is used to analyze how the presence of informal risk sharing influences schooling and child labor choices, as well as the …
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The Approach, Methods and Impact of a Non-Governmental Organization in Education of Child Workers in India: A Case Study
<p>Child labor is an extremely prominent and complex socio-economic issue in many developing countries. Obtaining an adequate education is the only way child workers may escape lives filled with poverty and exploitation. There is a strong indirect relationship between education and child workers. …
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Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
… disasters and social assistance programs affect children's schooling, child labor, and children’s health in developing countries. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Bearing the Burden of Natural Disasters: Child Labor and Schooling in the Aftermath of Tropical Storm …
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Three essays on Brazilian social security policies, education and labor market
… of different public policies on the Brazilian labor market using rigorous econometric techniques to study the Brazilian public sector. A clear theoretical and empirical comprehension is crucial when designing policies to mitigate social problems, as well-intentioned policies may exacerbate the …
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An investigation in the life histories of adolescents girls with early pregnancies in Mazabuka district
… Poor family financial position exposed them to child labor and school drop outs. They are at risk of being raped by close family members, unfortunately they lack sex education and do not use contraceptives. Adolescents with early pregnancies presented to have some common characteristics, of …
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An investigation in the life histories of adolescents girls with early pregnancies in Mazabuka district
… Poor family financial position exposed them to child labor and school drop outs. They are at risk of being raped by close family members, unfortunately they lack sex education and do not use contraceptives. Adolescents with early pregnancies presented to have some common characteristics, of …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… to which cash transfer programs might affect child labor and schooling decisions by the households when families are fully unconstrained in the use of the benefits from these programs. This is investigated in the context of a policy quasi-experiment created by the introduction of a large …
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Social Safety Net Programs and Household Behavior
… the impact of expanding government food aid on child labor and school attendance. Beginning 2001, the Indian state of Chhattisgarh implemented reforms to the traditional public distribution system (PDS) that purchased foodgrain staples from farmers at a minimum support price and distributed it …
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How do low-income Kurdish migrant women reconstruct their lives in an inner-city neighborhood of Istanbul?: experiences of migration and adaptation to life in the city
… study also inquired into mothers’ beliefs around child education and child labor as this population has been identified as at-risk for child labor in the literature. The research took place in Tarlabaşı, an inner-city neighborhoods that is largely populated by low-income Kurdish migrants in …
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