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Child labour and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru
A. Dammert / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2007
What impact do coca eradication policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes have on households? This paper examines the shift in the production of coca leaves...
Child labor, urban proximity and household composition
M. Fafchamps;J. Wahba / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2006
What is the relationship between child labour and urban proximity? Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labour with a special emphasis on urban proxi...
Access to higher education and inequality: the Chinese experiment
X. Wang;B.M. Fleisher;H. Li / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2007
Is the rising inequality in China associated with variable access to educational opportunities? This paper models the effects on the evolution of private returns to schooling for college graduate...
Child Labour
E. V. Edmonds / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2007
Extensive research has been done and several publications are available on child labour issues. This discussion reviews the recent literature to examine the reasons why child labour is prevalent and t...
Returns to private education in Peru
S. Calónico;H. Ñopo / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2007
The private provision of educational services at tertiary, secondary and primary levels has been expanding in Latin America in recent decades. The low quality of public provision of education is gi...
Old-age support in developing countries: labor supply, intergenerational transfers and living arrangements
L. Cameron; D.A. Cobb-Clark / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2001
Without broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of old...
Elder parent health and the migration decision of adult children: evidence from rural China
J. Giles; R. Mu / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, 2006
As the population of potential care-givers to the elderly shrinks with the appearance of attractive migrant employment opportunities, many observers have expressed concerns for the well-being of the C...

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