Does Child Labor Decrease When Parental Incomes Rises

Carol Rogers & Kenneth A. Swinnerton ()
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Carol Rogers & Kenneth A. Swinnerton: Department of Economics, 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.

Date: 2002-02-02
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