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 …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

Forward looking, unconstrained households make child labor and schooling decisions
considering their permanent income and weighing the relative returns to child time in …

This paper develops a model of intrahousehold allocation with endogenous fertility, which
captures the relationship between birth order and investment in children. It shows that a birth …

This paper examines the effects of birth order on intra-household allocations as evidenced
by the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Previous studies …

Two forms of “hidden” child labor–housework and family business work–are studied for
178,000 children in 16 African and Asian countries. About 30% of African children and 11 …

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability
of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), a time …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors
collected from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of …

In this paper we examine the effect of birth order on human capital development in Ecuador.
Using family fixed effects models we find positive and persistent birth order effects; earlier …