Survey on Child Labour Statistics

Survey on Wavelet Statistics

• Why the wavelet coefficients were assumed independent and non-Gaussian [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]? Because of the WT primary properties: (locality, multiresolution and compression) and interpretation of the WT as a whitening process which attempts to make the coefficients statistically independent. • Why the coefficients are assumed jointly Gaussian [6, 7, 8]? Because it helps to captures the linear cor...

Effects of Agricultural Child Labour on Children’s Perception of Farming Occupation in Delta State, Nigeria

This study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in Delta State, Nigeria. A total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.Farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. Highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

Cash Transfers and Child Labour

Cash Transfers and Child Labour Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children’s welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, on child labour...

The Supply of Child Labour

The Supply of Child Labour The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated with the worst forms of child exploitation. The analysis is positive, but ...

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)