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Why is Child Labor Illegal?
2001
Social Science Research Network
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Why Is Child Labor Illegal? * We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent with the fact that poor parents tend to oppose such laws. We find that if altruistic parents are unable to commit to educating their children, child-labor laws can increase the welfare of higher-income parents in an ex ante sense. On the basis of an empirical analysis of Latin-American household surveys, we demonstrate that per capita income in
doi:10.2139/ssrn.290085
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