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Child Mortality, Child Labour, and Economic Development

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Holger Strulik ()

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The paper presents a model where the interplay between fertility, child labour, and education can explain economic stagnation when parents live in an environment of high child mortality. If in contrast child mortality is low, the solution of the parental decision problem leads to perpetual economic growth. The two long-run states are connected by a path of demographic transition and economic take-off along which the incidence of child labour disappears. The paper also discusses alternative policies to escape from the low income equilibrium.

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Paper provided by Hamburg University, Department of Economics in its series Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers with number 20205.

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Keywords: Child Labour Demographic Transistion Endogenous Growth

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J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
O11 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O40 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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  1. Holger Strulik, 2002. "Economic Growth and Stagnation with Endogenous Health and Fertility," Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers 20208, Hamburg University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori, 2008. "Fertility-related pensions and fertility disincentives," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 10(8), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori, 2008. "Human capital, income, fertility and child policy," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 9(7), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
  6. Fernanda, ESTEVAN & Jean-Marie, BALAND, 2005. "Mortality risks and child labor," Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques Working Paper 2005040, Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques. [Downloadable!]
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