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Economic Policy & Gender: Child Labor

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Gender Issues in child labor - PREM Note 100 (PDF 94KB) 
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Developing effective policies against child labor requires attention to gender differences among working children, including differences between boys and girls in the determinants, types and consequences of child labor. The papers in this site provide evidence of these differences.

 Analytical Work and Operational Experience



Household Composition and the Response of Child Labor Supply to Product Market Integration: Evidence from Viet Nam
Eric Edmonds

Gender Dimension of Child Labor and Street Children in Brazil
Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Hnin Hnin Pyne

Child Labor Handbook  (PDF 282 KB)
Alessandro Cigno, Furio C. Rosati, and Zafiris Tzannatos

The Collective Model of the Household and an Unexpected Implication for Child Labor: Hypothesis and an Empirical Test
Kaushik Basu and Ranjan Ray

Children’s Work and Schooling: Does Gender Matter? Evidence from the Peru LSMS Panel Data
Nadeem Ilahi

The Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Tasks: What Have We Learnt from the Empirical Literature? (PDF 99 KB)
Nadeem Ilahi

Revisiting the Link Between Poverty and Child Labor: The Ghanaian Experience  (PDF 166 KB)
Niels-Hugo Blunch and Dorte Verner

Child Labor in Côte d’Ivoire: Incidence and Determinants
Christiaan Grootaert

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