Title:	Child Labor and Education in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
Authors:	Peter F. Orazem, Guilherme Sedlacek, and Zafiris Tzannatos
Keywords:	Regional Development
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Palgrave
Description:	In a series of integrated chapters written by leading scholars in the field of child labor, this book examines the stylized facts concerning child labor in Latin America—how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world. Within countries, it shows how the incidence of child labor varies by gender; by age of child; and by household income level. It also shows that the incidence of child labor varies dramatically over the year in response to variation in labor demand and to household income shocks. Child labor is shown to have long-term effects on the well being of the child, lowering years of schooling, reducing performance on test scores, and increasing the persistence of poverty across generations in “dynastic poverty traps”. The book then examines the evidence regarding the successes and failures in the policy battle against child labor in Latin America during the last decade. The relative success of conditional transfer programs aimed at lessening child labor in Mexico, Brazil and Nicaragua are investigated using experimental designs. The rich evidence presented in the book supports the view that the root causes of child labor can be identified, that child labor has identifiable costs that can last across generations, and that there are policy alternatives that can succeed in its eradication.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/27851
ISBN:	0–230–61459–0
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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