How to Deal with Covert Child Labor and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Because credit and insurance markets are imperfect and intrafamily transfers and how children use their time outside school hours are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labor below its efficient level (if positive), and uses a combinati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cigno, Alessandro
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15309