Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
dc.contributor Maheshwor Shrestha
dc.contributor Shrestha, Maheshwor
dc.creator Edmonds, Eric V.
dc.creator Shrestha, Maheshwor
dc.date 2018-11-06T20:46:35Z
dc.date 2018-11-06T20:46:35Z
dc.date 2014-10
dc.date 2014-09
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:09:03Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:09:03Z
dc.identifier 0304-3878
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118932
dc.identifier Edmonds, Eric V., and Maheshwor Shrestha. “You Get What You Pay for: Schooling Incentives and Child Labor.” Journal of Development Economics 111 (November 2014): 196–211 © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5557-5800
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278939
dc.description Can schooling promotion deter child participation in hazardous forms of child labor? We examine two interventions intended to promote schooling and deter child labor for children associated with carpet factories in Kathmandu. The first intervention provides scholarships for school-related expenses. The second provides the scholarship and an in-kind stipend conditional on school attendance. Paying for schooling expenses promotes schooling but only at the beginning of the school year when most schooling expenses occur. The scholarship combined with the conditional stipend increases school attendance rates by 11%, decreases grade failure rates by 46%, and reduces carpet weaving by 48%. Financial support lasted one year. Effects on schooling and weaving do not persist past the year of support. “You get what you pay for” when schooling incentives are used to combat hazardous child labor. Keywords: Education; School subsidies; Conditional transfers; School enrollment; Child labor; Labor standards; Nepal
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.09.005
dc.relation Journal of Development Economics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.source Maheshwor Shrestha
dc.title You get what you pay for: Schooling incentives and child labor
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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