The authors probe further into how household attributes affect the probability that children will work, and the probability of enrollment and success in school. Focusing on four household surveys in Brazil...
Using country-level data, this report lays out the broad stylized facts regarding the relationship between child labor and per capita GDP, adult literacy, and the share of agriculture in the economy. The...
The authors use a unique data set on adult earnings in Brazil to study how child labor affects adult earnings through its impacts on work experience, years of schooling, and human capital attained per...
The authors evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic shocks to a father's income on his children's probability of dropping out of school, entering the labor market, or failing to advance to the next grade...
This paper assesses the design and performance of Targeted Conditional Transfer (TCT) programs for human development in Latin America. These programs mainly came about in the early-mid 1990s in the form...
This report focuses on identifying a cost-effective strategy for the governments to achieve and sustain their goal of universal, high-quality, basic education within the next decade, given that the governments...