Intra-Household Gender Bias and Child Labor Persistence in Brazil
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In this paper we examine gender differences in the inter-generational persistence of child labor within the context of intra-household resource allocation. We begin by building an intra-household allocation model where fathers and mothers may affect the education investment and the child labor participation of their sons and daughters differently due to differences in the children's human capital technologies or differences in the parents’ preferences. Using the 1996 Brazilian Household Survey, we estimate the impacts of parents’ child labor status, schooling and nonlabor income on children’s child labor participation and school attendance. The empirical results show that fathers favor sons and mothers favor daughters regarding child labor participation decisions but fathers and mothers both favor sons regarding educational attainment. (JEL Classification Numbers: J20, O12, O54) (
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