Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rise?

Carol Ann Rogers and Kenneth Swinnerton ()
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Carol Ann Rogers: Georgetown University

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Abstract: In the presence of two-sided altruism, i.e., when parents and children care about each other’s utility, increases in parental income need not always lead to increases in schooling and to decreases in child labor. This surprising result derives from the systematic way capital market constraints bind as parental income rises: child labor increases as soon as parental income rises by enough to eliminate transfers from children to parents.

Keywords: child labor; intergenerational transfers; altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 D13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-06-25
Note: Type of Document - ; pages: 23; figures: included
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