This is the first study to investigate the short- and long-term causal effects of a child-labor ban. The study explores the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998...
This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. The authors used a difference-in-differences...
The authors use the "Pesquisa Nacional por Amostragem a Domicilio" (PNAD) data for Brazil. Their paper asks two related questions. First, does the child labor status of parents impact the child labor incidence...