Favorite son? Specialized child laborers and students in poor LDC households

Horowitz, Andrew W.; Wang, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.04.005

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“…To the extent that people's leadership qualities increase the chance of labor market participation and these uncontrolled attributes are the same characteristics that determine their ability to participate in household issues, uninstrumented work status is expected to have a larger effect than the one estimated with instruments. This result is in line with Horowitz and Wang (2004). Figures also indicate that the levels of statistical significance or signs corresponding to the other explanatory variables are not affected by the use of the instrumented work status.…”

Section: Specific Household Issues: Effects Of Attributessupporting

confidence: 84%

The Influence of Living with Parents on Women's Decision-Making Participation in the Household: Evidence from the Southern Philippines

Bayudan-Dacuycuy

2013

The Journal of Development Studies

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Section: Specific Household Issues: Effects Of Attributessupporting

confidence: 84%

The Influence of Living with Parents on Women's Decision-Making Participation in the Household: Evidence from the Southern Philippines

Bayudan-Dacuycuy

2013

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Among the policy options discussed are banning child labor and/or sanctioning countries that allow the practice. These types of policy responses have been widely debated among economists (see e.g., Emerson and Knabb, 2006, 2005, 2004Horowitz and Wang, 2004;Basu, 2002;Dessy and Pallage, 2001;Baland and Robinson, 2000;Dessy, 2000;Basu and Van, 1998). Most of these studies emphasize the trade-off between child labor and human capital accumulation to justify policy interventions, arguing that there are large negative consequences from child labor.…”

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confidence: 99%

Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings

Emerson

Souza

2011

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…Recent studies have highlighted the comparative advantage or specialization of a child for a particular activity (see, for example, Horowitz & Wang, 2004;Edmonds, 2005). If the productivity of household or market work differs by the sex and birth position of a child in the household, then there must be a correlation between child labour and birth order (Edmonds, 2005).…”

Section: Comparative Advantages or Child Specializationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, comparative advantages could dictate how parents make differential decisions over allocating labour activities to some children and schooling for others. Horowitz & Wang (2004) described such decision-making as intra-household specialization of heterogeneous children between the labour market and human capital accumulation.…”

Section: Comparative Advantages or Child Specializationmentioning

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Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh: The Role of Birth Order

Khanam

Rahman

2007

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary. Using data from Bangladesh, this paper examines how the birth order of a child influences parental decisions to place children in one of four activities: 'study only', 'study and work', 'neither work nor study' and 'work only'. The results of the multinomial logit model show that being a first-born child increases the probability of work as the prime activity, or at least a combination of school and work, rather than schooling only. The results confirm that later-born children are more likely to be in school than their earlier-born counterparts.

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Favorite son? Specialized child laborers and students in poor LDC households

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

The Influence of Living with Parents on Women's Decision-Making Participation in the Household: Evidence from the Southern Philippines

The Influence of Living with Parents on Women's Decision-Making Participation in the Household: Evidence from the Southern Philippines

Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings

Child Work and Schooling in Bangladesh: The Role of Birth Order

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