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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Zürich 2008 No. 42
Verlag: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer, Göttingen
Zusammenfassung: 
Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for children. Accounting for these natural links we investigate whether and when there is an additional role for community norms and how the social evaluation of schooling evolves over time. The proposed model provides an explanation for why equally poor villages or regions display different attitudes towards schooling and why children who are not working are not sent to school either but remain idle instead. The conditions for a successful implementation of a half-day school vs. a full-day school are investigated. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards an equilibrium where all children are sent to school.
Schlagwörter: 
School Attendance
Child Labor
Social Norms
Targeted Transfers
JEL: 
I20
I29
J13
O12
Dokumentart: 
Conference Paper

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