Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "JEL Classification Number: J20"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)In this paper we examine intra-household gender differences and the incidence of child labor and children¬πs school attendance in Brazil to test whether the unitary model of household allocations is suitable in the child ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building a simple overlapping generations model of the ...