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Impact of Cash Transfers on Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil, The
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)
The paper estimates the impact on school attendance and child labor of conditional cash payments to poor families in Brazil. It describes Brazil's transfer programs and presents statistics on school attendance and child ...
Bargaining over Sons and Daughters:Child Labor, School Attendance and Intra-Household Gender Bias in Brazil
(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 ...
Is There a Child Labor Trap?Inter-Generational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil
(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 ...
Birth Order, Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil
(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 ...