Child Labor in the Developing World: Theory, Practice and Policy

✍ Scribed by Alberto Posso

• Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor. In so doing, the chapters provide a unique set of policy prescriptions that are applicable to both the developing countries that make up the case studies of the volume, as well as other countries more broadly. The volume is constructed to inform policy with rigorous analysis. However, unlike most academic studies, the language and flavour of the volume is largely non-technical, while the policy recommendations are practical.

The volume is made up of three sections. The first section builds on the existing literature and provides new theoretical insights into child labor. Section 2 provides empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative case studies on child labor from across Asia, Africa and Latin America. This section provides information from studies conducted in Brazil, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, India and Vietnam. Section 3 provides policy recommendations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Introduction (Alberto Posso)....Pages 1-13
Economic Growth, Structural Change and Decline of Child Labour in Agriculture: A Theoretical Perspective (Joydeb Sasmal, Ritwik Sasmal)....Pages 15-34
Child Labour and Human Capital in Developing Countries: A Multi-Period Stochastic Model (Indrajit Thakurata)....Pages 35-81
Is There a Culture of Child Labour? The Decision-Making Process of Working Among Girl Beedi Rollers in Jhalda Region of Purulia, West Bengal (Dakhina Mitra)....Pages 83-109
Income Shocks and Child Labor: Evidence for the Rural Dominican Republic (Eva Rodríguez Cuevas, Lorena Vieira Costa)....Pages 111-139
Heterogeneous Effects of Migration on Child Welfare: Empirical Evidence from Viet Nam (Peter J. Morgan, Trinh Q. Long)....Pages 141-171
The Effect of Child Labour on Primary Education in Brazil (Roselaine Bonfim de Almeida)....Pages 173-192
Implications of Child Labour Earnings for Household Well-Being in Cameroon (Fabien Sundjo)....Pages 193-225
Child Labour in a Pastoral Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir: Impact of Spatiality Within a State of Conflict (Afreen Gani Faridi)....Pages 227-266
Conclusions and Generalised Policy Inferences (Alberto Posso)....Pages 267-269
Back Matter ....Pages 271-273

✦ Subjects

Economics; Development Economics; Development and Children; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice