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Child Schooling and Child Work in the Presence of a Partial Education Subsidy

Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal and Furio C. Rosati
Published online before print December 21, 2017, 0317-8627r1rev; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.54.2.0317.8627R1
Jacobus de Hoop
Social policy specialist at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti in Florence.
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Jed Friedman
Senior economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC
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Eeshani Kandpal
Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC.
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Furio C. Rosati
Professor of economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.
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Abstract

Could a partial subsidy for child education increase child labor? Using data from the randomized evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) in the Philippines, we find that children who were neither in school nor work in the absence of the program not only increased school participation but also increased work for pay. We show suggestive evidence that, because the cash transfer only provided a partial schooling subsidy, children worked to cover the shortfall in schooling fees. Our findings contribute to the increasing evidence that the design of CCTs, in this case transfer size, matters considerably in terms of achieving program goals.

Keywords
  • Cash transfers
  • child labor
  • education
  • education subsidy
  • Philippines
JEL codes
  • C93
  • I21
  • J22
  • O22

This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) and is freely available online at: http://jhr.uwpress.org

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Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, Furio C. Rosati
Journal of Human Resources Dec 2017, 0317-8627r1rev; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.54.2.0317.8627R1

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Jacobus de Hoop, Jed Friedman, Eeshani Kandpal, Furio C. Rosati
Journal of Human Resources Dec 2017, 0317-8627r1rev; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.54.2.0317.8627R1
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