Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252268 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15144
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effect of a unique child labor ban regulation on employment and school enrollment. The ban implemented in Mexico in 2015, increased the minimum working age from 14 to 15, introduced restrictions to employ underage individuals, and imposed penalties for the violation of the law. Our identification strategy relies on a DiD approach that exploits the date of birth as a natural cutoff to assign individuals into treatment and control groups. The ban led to a decrease in the probability to work by 1.2 percentage points and an increase in the probability of being enrolled in school by 2.2 percentage points for the treatment group. These results are driven by a reduction in employment in paid activities, and in the secondary and tertiary sectors. The effects are persistent several years after the ban.
Subjects: 
child labor
ban
minimum working age
schooling
JEL: 
I38
J22
J23
J82
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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