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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

dc.contributor.author Beegle, Kathleen
dc.contributor.author Dehejia, Rajeev
dc.contributor.author Gatti, Roberta
dc.date.accessioned 2012-06-22T22:05:42Z
dc.date.available 2012-06-22T22:05:42Z
dc.date.issued 2005-01
dc.description.abstract Although there is extensive literature on the determinants of child labor and many initiatives aimed at combating it, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health. The authors evaluate the causal effect of child labor participation on these outcomes using panel data from Vietnam and an instrumental variables strategy. Five years subsequent to the child labor experience, they find significant negative effects on school participation and educational attainment, but also find substantially higher earnings for those (young) adults who worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they estimate that from age 30 onward the forgone earnings attributable to lost schooling exceed any earnings gain associated with child labor and that the net present discounted value of child labor is positive for discount rates of 11.5 percent or higher. The authors show that child labor is prevalent among households likely to have higher borrowing costs, that are farther from schools, and whose adult members experienced negative returns to their own education. This evidence suggests that reducing child labor will require facilitating access to credit and will also require households to be forward looking. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5594964/care-child-labor-education-labor-market-health-consequences-child-labor
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8897
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3479
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subject BORROWING
dc.subject CHILD EARNINGS
dc.subject CHILD LABOR
dc.subject CHILDHOOD
dc.subject DEMOCRACY
dc.subject DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
dc.subject DISCOUNT RATES
dc.subject ECONOMIC COSTS
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject ECONOMICS
dc.subject EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject EQUILIBRIUM
dc.subject EXPENDITURES
dc.subject FARMS
dc.subject GIFTED CHILDREN
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject INCOME
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
dc.subject LABOR DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject LABOR MARKET
dc.subject LABOR MARKETS
dc.subject LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject MARKET WAGE
dc.subject MATHEMATICS
dc.subject OUTPUTS
dc.subject PARENTS
dc.subject PRICE DIFFERENCES
dc.subject PRIVATE COSTS
dc.subject PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
dc.subject PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject TRANSITION ECONOMIES
dc.subject WAGE INCREASES
dc.subject WAGES
dc.subject WORKERS
dc.subject WORKING CHILDREN
dc.subject WORKING HOURS
dc.title Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor en
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea Jobs
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/5594964/care-child-labor-education-labor-market-health-consequences-child-labor
okr.globalpractice Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpractice Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice Governance
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-3479
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000012009_20050210093624
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 5594964
okr.identifier.report WPS3479
okr.language.supported en
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okr.topic Environmental Economics and Policies
okr.topic Urban Development :: Street Children
okr.topic Social Protections and Labor :: Labor Policies
okr.topic Governance :: Youth and Governance
okr.topic Social Development :: Children and Youth
okr.topic Social Protections and Labor :: Labor Standards
okr.unit Development Research Group (DECRG)
okr.volume 1 of 1
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