We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension
program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic …

Child labour remains a prevalent global concern, and progress toward eradicating harmful
children's work appears to have stalled in the African continent and henceforth, integrated …

This chapter presents the main theoretical analyses in the area of child labor and their
implications in terms of policy design. The discussion is based on the human capital …

The contribution of this research is analyzing the effect of the quality of primary and
secondary school service delivery on child labor practices, taking Indonesia as a case study …

In many develo** countries, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have a significant
social impact. They seek to combat poverty through redistributive transfers, and to combat …

Since 2015, over 7 million Venezuelans have been forced to leave their homes, seeking
refuge predominantly in neighboring countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. The …

This study aims to determine the effect of household characteristics and children's living
environment on child labor to reduce the likelihood of child labor occurrence. The data …

Using a differences-in-differences approach we study the link between regional trade
agreements (RTAs) and completion of primary education in develo** countries and find …

Resource booms are often associated with adverse distributional effects across economies.
We exploit temporal and spatial variation generated by the copper boom in the 2000s to …

We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an
intervening variable between the parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The …