Christopher GRIGORIOU () (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) Grégoire ROTA-GRAZIOSI () (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International)
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In a framework, where child labor results from a risky choice between working and schooling, we study the reason why public education expenditures may fail to reduce child labor. We determine an optimal composition of social expenditures between education and health which minimizes child labor for a given government's budget. This is tested with panel data over 81 developing countries. It is evidenced that the unbalanced structure of the social spending favourable to education to the detriment of health often observed in the poor countries is inefficient to reduce child labor. More generally, our statements shed light on the need to reconsider the conventional wisdom viewing public health and education expenditures as substitutes.
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Paper provided by CERDI in its series Working Papers with number
200517.
Length: 23 Date of creation: 2005 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:cdi:wpaper:725
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