Limiting Child Labor through Behavior-based Income Transfers: An Experimental Evaluation of the PETI Program in Rural Brazil

Yoon-Tien Yap, Guilherme Sedlacek and Peter Orazem

Chapter 9 in Child Labor and Education in Latin America, 2009, pp 147-165 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Brazil has maintained a high incidence of child labor despite its relatively high level of income per capita. Brazilian law in the 1990s prohibited children under the age of 14 from working, but the law was not enforced effectively. Although the proportion of working children increased 5 percentage points as children went from age 13 to 14, the increase is small relative to the proportion already working illegally at younger ages. Of all children aged 10 to 13, 6% in urban areas and 33% in rural areas worked at some time in 1996. Complicating enforcement of the child-labor laws is the fact that most children work informally as unpaid family labor. In urban areas, 59% of working children were unpaid; in rural areas, the proportion was 91%. With such informal employment arrangements among household enterprises, it is very difficult to distinguish illegal labor from legal chores.1

Keywords: Labor Supply; Child Labor; Income Transfer; Program Child; Accident Rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_10

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