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 …

In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their attention to the question of
why children work. The purpose of this paper is to review some of the more recent …

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …

Despite the extensive literature on the determinants of child labor, the evidence on the
consequences of child labor on outcomes such as education, labor, and health is limited …

This paper analyzes the effect of children's work on learning achievement. Its particular
significance is that it goes beyond the analysis of the effects on school enrollment or …

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts,
incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in …

This study estimates the individual and combined effects of selected family, student and
school characteristics on the academic achievement of poor, urban primary-school students …

Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated using unique data on third and
fourth graders in nine Latin-American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy …

Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West
Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book …

This paper investigates the impact of income and non-income shocks on child labor using a
model in which the household maximizes utility from consumption as well as human capital …