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Child Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendance: Evidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Age

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creativework.datePublishedPublished: 15 May 2024
creativeworkseries.issn1564-698X
dc.contributor.authorKozhaya, Mireille
dc.contributor.authorFlores, Fernanda Martínez
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-13T20:07:30Z
dc.date.available2025-02-13T20:07:30Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-13
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban, implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced restrictions to employing underage individuals, and imposed stricter penalties for violation of the law. Our identification strategy relies on a DiD approach that exploits the date of birth as a natural cutoff to assign individuals into treatment and control groups. The ban led to a decrease in the probability of working by 1.2 percentage points, resembling a 16 percent decrease relative to the pre-reform mean, and an increase in the likelihood of being enrolled in school by 2.2 percentage points for the treatment group. These results are driven by reduced employment in paid work and the manufacturing and services sectors. The effects have been persistent for several years after the ban.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099554202052570117/IDU132aec8aa11a8014c2b1b7541afd323c6a46d
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhae020
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/42814
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42814
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectCHILD LABOR
dc.subjectBAN
dc.subjectMINIMUM WORKING AGE
dc.subjectSCHOOLING
dc.titleChild Labor Bans, Employment, and School Attendanceen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from Changes in the Minimum Working Ageen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/39/1/164/7673286 Journal website (version of record)
okr.date.disclosure2025-02-13
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T11:48:54.286672Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-02-12T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypeJournal Article
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099554202052570117/IDU132aec8aa11a8014c2b1b7541afd323c6a46d
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okr.identifier.docmidIDU-32aec8aa-1a80-4c2b-b754-afd323c6a46d
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhae020
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34453051
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okr.identifier.report197039
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okr.pagenumber164–190
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099554202052570117/pdf/IDU132aec8aa11a8014c2b1b7541afd323c6a46d.pdfen
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryMexico
okr.topicLaw and Development::Child Labor Law
okr.unitDIME Econ Transformation &Growth (DIME1)
okr.volume39(1)
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