Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial an...

: working in street as a part of child labor is a global problem. several studies have focused on familial factors of child labor in iran. this study is going to present the issue of child labor and its risk factors and impacts on street children in tehran. this study used rapid assessment and response method in 1391-92 in tehran. samples were recruited from street children in tehran as well as...

Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better? We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women’s labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and child care demand. We introduce two methodo...

The previous literature suggests that the determinants of child labor are largely country specific, indicating that any policies aimed at reducing child labor must look carefully at the causes of child labor in context. My thesis adds to the empirical work on child labor by investigating what household and community characteristics are most common among working children in the Philippines, usin...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between social contextual factors and child and adolescent labor. METHODS Population-based cohort study carried out with 2,512 families living in 23 subareas of a large urban city in Brazil from 2000 to 2002. A random one-stage cluster sampling was used to select families. Data were obtained through individual household interviews using questionnaires. Th...

From 1993 to 1997, GDP per capita in Vietnam grew by between 6 and 7 percent annually. Child labor declined by 28 percent over this period. Using a simple, nonparametric decomposition, I investigate the relationship between improvements in per capita expenditure and child labor with a panel dataset of Vietnamese households that spans this episode of growth. I find that improvements in per capit...

This paper examines the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) affects child labor. Using 1995 data for 145 countries, we find that, contrary to common fears, FDI is negatively correlated with child labor. This effect, however, disappears when controlling for per capita income. After doing so, we find no robust effect of either FDI or international trade on child labor. This result is ...