Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Edmonds, Eric V.; Schady, Norbert
• 署名单位: Dartmouth College; Inter-American Development Bank
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.4.4.100
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 100-124
• 关键词: economic-growth; trade liberalization; Cash transfers; rural-areas; persistence; allocation; decisions; education; MARKETS; program

摘要

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 time of the award use the transfer to postpone the child's entry into the labor force. Students in families induced to take up the transfer by the experiment reduce paid employment by 78 percent and unpaid economic activity inside their home by 32 percent. Time in unpaid household services increases, but overall time spent working declines. (JEL I32, I38, J13, J22, J82, O12)