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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827362603321

Autore

de Carvalho Filho Irineu

Titolo

Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil : : Evidence From A Social Security Reform / / Irineu de Carvalho Filho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-4570-0

1-4527-7127-8

1-282-84192-0

1-4518-7099-X

9786612841927

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (38 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/241

Disciplina

339.2

Soggetti

Income - Brazil - Econometric models

Child labor - Brazil - Econometric models

Social security - Brazil - Econometric models

School enrollment - Brazil - Econometric models

Macroeconomics

Demography

Women''s Studies'

Education: General

Economics of the Elderly

Economics of the Handicapped

Non-labor Market Discrimination

Labor Economics: General

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Economics of Gender

Non-labor Discrimination

Education

Population & demography

Labour

income economics

Gender studies

women & girls

Aging

Labor

Personal income



Women

Population aging

Labor economics

Income

Brazil Economic conditions 1985- Econometric models

Brazil Social conditions 1985-

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Background information about child labor in Brazil; III. Description of the Social Security reform; IV. Data; V. Empirical strategy; A. The Determinants of Children's Schooling and Labor; VI. Results; A. First Stage Estimates; B. Reduced Form Estimates; C. Counterfactual Analysis; D. Structural Estimates; E. Assessing the robustness of the estimates; VII. Causal Effects or Selection Bias?; VIII. Conclusions; References; Tables; 1. The Work-School Enrollment Statistics of Children 10-14; 2. Means: Boys; Means: Girls; 3. First Stage Regressions

4. Reduced Form Estimates5. Panel 1. Actual and Counterfactual Values fo Treated Group, after the Reform; 6. Estimates of the Effect of Monthly Benefits. Coefficient is the Estimated Effect of 100 in Social Security Income; 7. Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Effect of Benefits for Different Subsamples; 8. Reduced Form Estimates. Has the Reform Changed the Percentage of Elderly Coresiding with Children 10 to 14?; Figures; 1. Child Work in Brazil: 1981-1998; 2. School Enrollment in Brazil: 1981-1998

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was reduced by 20 percent for girls living in the same household as an elderly benefiting from the reform. Girls' labor participation rates reduced with increased benefit income, but only when benefits were received by a female elderly. Effects on boys' enrollment rates and labor participation were in general smaller and statistically insignificant.