Child labor

EV Edmonds - Handbook of development economics, 2007‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor.
An Econlit search of keywords “child lab* r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles …

[ספר][B] Drop** Out from School: A Cross Country Review of the Literature. Create Pathways to Access. Research Monograph, No. 16.

F Hunt - 2008‏ - ERIC
This paper provides an in-depth review and analysis of literature on drop** out from
school, and focuses on children who have gained access, but fail to complete a basic …

[PDF][PDF] Factors contributing to school dropout among the girls: A review of literature

SM Shahidul, A Karim - European Journal of research and reflection in …, 2015‏ - Citeseer
Though a lot of research have been concerned with school dropout issue for both girls and
boys, dropout pattern significantly differs by the gender of the students. This paper clarifies …

Poverty alleviation and child labor

EV Edmonds, N Schady - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012‏ - aeaweb.org
Poor women with children in Ecuador were selected at random for a cash transfer that is less
than 20 percent of median child labor earnings. Poor families with children in school at the …

Effects of household-and district-level factors on primary school enrollment in 30 develo** countries

J Huisman, J Smits - World development, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Household-and district-level determinants of primary school enrollment are studied for
220,000 children in 340 districts of 30 develo** countries using multilevel analysis …

School attendance in Nigeria: Understanding the impact and intersection of gender, urban-rural residence, and socioeconomic status

A Kazeem, L Jensen, CS Stokes - Comparative education …, 2010‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
International development agencies, policy makers, and scholars alike have often promoted
and emphasized the importance of formal education for children in develo** countries …

Winning the oil lottery: The impact of natural resource extraction on growth

T Cavalcanti, D Da Mata, F Toscani - Journal of Economic Growth, 2019‏ - Springer
This paper provides evidence of the causal impact of oil discoveries on local development.
Novel data covering the universe of oil wells drilled in Brazil allow us to exploit a quasi …

Typology of school dropout: The dimensions and dynamics of dropout in Ghana

ED Ananga - International Journal of Educational Development, 2011‏ - Elsevier
This paper explores the dropout experience of children who dropped out of schools located
in two rural communities1 in the Central Region of Ghana. The main research question …

Who models the world? Collaborative ontology creation and user roles in Wikidata

A Piscopo, E Simperl - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
Wikidata is a collaborative knowledge graph which is central to many academic and industry
IT projects. Its users are responsible for maintaining the schema that organises this …

Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi

G Hazarika, S Sarangi - World Development, 2008‏ - Elsevier
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by 7–11-year-
old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household …