Rotten Parents and Child Labor

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Rotten Parents and Child Labor

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Antoine Bommier
Pierre Dubois ()

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We show that taking into account the consequences of child labor on both childhood welfare and human capital investment, instead of focusing exclusively on the human capital dimension, brings new insights on the economic analysis of child labor. In particular, there are new sources of potential inefficiencies that appear when we assume that labor induces some disutility. In such a case, household decisions regarding child labor may indeed be inefficient even if household members are altruistic, transfers are not at a corner and there are no market imperfections. Also, the presence of child labor disutility leads to an equilibrium where the conditions for an exogenous reduction of child labor to be Pareto improving are less likely to be fulfilled. This paper stresses therefore the fact that economic analysis should not forget one of the most important aspects of child labor, namely that it does not make children happy.

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Date of creation: Mar 2002
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- Antoine Bommier & Pierre Dubois, 2004. "Rotten Parents and Child Labor," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 112(1), pages 240-248, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Find related papers by JEL classification:
D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism
I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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NEP-ALL-2002-06-13 (All new papers)
NEP-MIC-2002-06-17 (Microeconomics)

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