Reducing child labour in Panama: an impact evaluation

Andisha, Nasir; Chiquito-Saban, Oscar; Emmerich, Eduardo; Figueroa, Aurelia; Jiang, Yuewen; Lee, Jun Hui; Manning, D. E. B.; Ortega-Sanchez, Alejandra; Gawande, Kishore

doi:10.1080/19439342.2014.908936

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“…Notions such as child labour or children engaged in productive activities are used interchangeably, with some evaluations denoting any type of work as child labour. Some evaluations of programmes that focus squarely on reduction of child labour even suggest that there is no agreed definition of child labour and therefore adopt their own (for example, Andisha et al, 2014).…”

Section: Impact Of Interventions On Child Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children’s Work in African Agriculture

2023

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines children’s involvement in African agricultural work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, with all the associated negative connotations, is problematic. The conceptual and case-based chapters reframe the debate about children’s work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families.

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Children’s Work in African Agriculture

2023

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“…Notions such as child labour or children engaged in productive activities are used interchangeably, with some evaluations denoting any type of work as child labour (ibid.). Even evaluations of programmes that focus squarely on reductions in child labour concede that there is no agreed definition of child labour and adopt their own operationalisation, such as in relation to educational programmes in Panama (Andisha et al 2014).…”

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Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: A Review of the Methodological Landscape

Roelen¹,

Barnett²,

Johnson³

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Children’s engagement with work has been widely researched using a wide variety of methods. However, the extent to which such methods and their combination provides insight into forms of children’s harmful work (CHW) is not obvious. This paper reviews and assesses respective opportunities and challenges of the main methods that have been used to study children’s engagement with work. It proposes research design principles and a methodological landscape for an integrated approach to child-centred, inclusive, and ethical research of CHW.

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“…school accessibility or the indirect costs of schooling) have been increasingly emphasized in a second wave of impact evaluations, which look at the quality of education. For example, Andisha et al (2014);de Hoop and Rosati (2012); Duflo (2001); and Rosati and Rossi (2007) find an increase in attendance rates in the face of improvements in school infrastructure,…”

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Chiodi¹,

Escudero²

2020

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What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the first randomized experiment, we evaluate a livelihood intervention provided to farmers in Peru that use the labor of their children on their family farms, accompanied by an education intervention aimed to improve the quality of schools and an awareness-raising intervention. In the second randomized experiment, we evaluate the incremental effect of the livelihood intervention implemented within a similar program in the Philippines, focused on the sugarcane agricultural sector. We find that when livelihood interventions were provided alone, they did not manage to improve economic conditions, and hence generally failed to reduce child labor rates in rural areas. However, when the livelihood intervention was combined with measures to improve the quality of education in Peru, we see a reduction in hazardous child labor and child labor overall. Awareness-raising interventions, aimed at changing the perceptions of parents through community interaction, appear to have also had an effect in the reduction of child labor, and these effects were reinforced by education interventions. Results indicate that a comprehensive approach including livelihood support with education and awareness-raising components is a more effective way to reduce child labor and hazardous labor for children in the agricultural sector.

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Reducing child labour in Panama: an impact evaluation

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