Income Elasticity of Child Labor: Do Cash Transfers have an Impact on the Poorest Children?

The possible nonlinearity of the income elasticity of child labor has been at the center of the debate regarding both its causes and the policy instruments to address it. We contribute to this debate providing theoretical and empirical novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any given t...

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Main Authors: Pellerano Luca, Porreca Eleonora, Rosati Furio C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-07-01
Series:IZA Journal of Development and Migration
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2020-0011