Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Child-Labor Ban

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7796

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Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Child-Labor Ban

dc.contributor.author	Piza, Caio
dc.contributor.author	Portela Souza, Andre
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-12T20:48:43Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-12T20:48:43Z
dc.date.issued	2016-08
dc.description.abstract	This is the first study to investigate the short- and long-term causal effects of a child-labor ban. The study explores the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time allocated to schooling and work in the short term and on school attainment and labor market outcomes in the long term. The analysis uses cross-sectional data from 1998 to 2014, and applies a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the ban at different points of individuals’ lifecycles. The estimates show that the ban reduced the incidence of boys in paid work activities by 4 percentage points or 27 percent. The study finds that the fall in child labor is mostly explained by the change in the proportions of boys working for pay and studying, and observes an increase in the proportion of boys only studying as a consequence. The results suggest that the ban reduced boys’ participation in the labor force. The study follows the same cohort affected by the ban over the years, and finds that the short-term effects persisted until 2003 when the boys turned 18. The study pooled data from 2007 to 2014 to check whether the ban affected individuals’ stock of human capital and labor market outcomes. The estimates suggest that the ban did not have long-term effects for the whole cohort, but found some indication that it did negatively affect the log earnings of individuals at the lower tail of the earnings distribution.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26696289/short--long-term-effects-child-labor-ban
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-7796
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25041
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7796
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	child-labor ban
dc.subject	labor-market experience
dc.subject	school attainment
dc.subject	regression discontinuity design
dc.title	Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Child-Labor Ban	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.crossref.title	Short- and Long-Term Effects of a Child-Labor Ban
okr.date.disclosure	2016-08-15
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okr.region.administrative	Latin America and Caribbean
okr.region.country	Brazil
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Child Labor
okr.topic	Law and Development::Child Labor Law
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Standards
okr.unit	Impact Evaluation Team, Development Research Group
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