The Economics of Child Labor

Basu, Kaushik

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“…For instance, in Basu and Van (1998) and Baland and Robinson (2000), it can be optimal for households to have children, even when keeping children in school leads to higher future wages. This is because keeping children out of the labor force (and in school) can incur a large utility cost from foregone household consumption.…”

Section: Human Capital Investment In Childrenmentioning

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Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Liu

2016

Journal of Health Economics

105

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of public health insurance in mitigating adverse outcomes associated with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total household income and consumption are fully insured against health shocks even without access to health insurance. Household labor supply is an important insurance mechanism against health shocks. Access to health insurance helps households to maintain investment in children's human capital during negative health shocks, which suggests that one benefit of health insurance could arise from reducing the use of costly smoothing mechanisms. JEL Classification:D1, O1, I1

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Section: Human Capital Investment In Childrenmentioning

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Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Liu

2016

Journal of Health Economics

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“…The proteins of the DMSO reductase family present the widest diversity of properties among members [1,14]. The first crystal structure reported for a member of this family was DMSO reductase [15,16].…”

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Mo and W bis-MGD enzymes: nitrate reductases and formate dehydrogenases

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Molybdenum and tungsten are second-and third-row transition elements, respectively, which are found in a mononuclear form in the active site of a diverse group of enzymes that generally catalyze oxygen atom transfer reactions. Mononuclear Mo-containing enzymes have been classified into three families: xanthine oxidase, DMSO reductase, and sulfite oxidase. The proteins of the DMSO reductase family present the widest diversity of properties among its members and our knowledge about this family was greatly broadened by the study of the enzymes nitrate reductase and formate dehydrogenase, obtained from different sources. We discuss in this review the information of the better characterized examples of these two types of Mo enzymes and W enzymes closely related to the members of the DMSO reductase family. We briefly summarize, also, the few cases reported so far for enzymes that can function either with Mo or W at their active site.

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“…A literatura especializada produzida em torno do tema do trabalho infantil pode ser classificada em dois grupos: o primeiro reúne estudos cujo objetivo e escopo são fundamentalmente atestar os prejuízos do trabalho infantil para os mercados, as sociedades, as famí-lias e os jovens trabalhadores. Esse é o caso da maioria dos trabalhos produzidos por economistas ou por inspiração da teoria econômica (ver, por exemplo, Basu & Van, 1998;Basu, 1999;Psacharopoulos, 1997;Edmonds & Pavcnik, 2005;Schwartzman & Schwartzman, 2004). Na medida em que a erradicação do trabalho infantil é um ponto importante da agenda de várias agências multilaterais, pelo menos desde os anos de 1940, essa concentração temática não chega a surpreender.…”

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Permanências e mutações na definição intergeracional do trabalho infantil

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2010

Educ. Soc.

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RESUMO:O artigo discute a percepção de famílias dos grupos populares sobre o significado do trabalho infantil, apontando o enquadramento moral, cercado de ambiguidades, das decisões tomadas pela geração mais velha de adiar a entrada dos filhos em ocupações remuneradas. Embora suas decisões possam ser explicadas, pelo menos em parte, pela profundidade das transformações nas mentalidades que acompanharam a gênese da percepção da criança como um ser humano em formação e fundamentaram a transformação do trabalho infantil em prática ilegal e socialmente ilegítima, nosso estudo, não obstante, ajuda a mostrar que as ambiguidades percebidas podem ser explicadas pela história social das gerações em foco, que é, em grande parte, a história das transformações por que passou o Brasil nas últimas décadas, tanto no que diz respeito à sua estrutura produtiva, quanto à sua organização legal e espacial.Palavras-chave: Educação e desigualdade. Socialização. Gerações. Trabalho infantil.* As autoras agradecem o financiamento do CNPq e da FAPESP, fundamental para a realização da pesquisa. ** Mestranda em Educação (UNICAMP) e professora da rede pública municipal de Campinas.

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The Economics of Child Labor

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Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Insuring against health shocks: Health insurance and household choices

Mo and W bis-MGD enzymes: nitrate reductases and formate dehydrogenases

Permanências e mutações na definição intergeracional do trabalho infantil

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