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Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise? Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Carol Ann Rogers (Georgetown University)
Kenneth A. Swinnerton (U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs)
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In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in parental income need not always lead to increases in schooling and to decreases in child labor. This surprising result derives from the systematic way capital market constraints bind as parental income rises: child labor increases as soon as parental income rises by enough to eliminate transfers from children to parents.
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Keywords: child labor intergenerational transfers altruism Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
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