Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
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DOI：
10.1086/657125
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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2
通讯作者：
Souza, Andre Portela
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作者：
Emerson, Patrick M.;Souza, Andre Portela
这篇论文探讨了这样一个问题：就个人成年后的收入结果而言，童年工作对个人有害吗？虽然这是一个极其重要的问题，但人们对童工对成人的影响知之甚少。对巴西数据的工具变量收入模型的估计表明，童工对男性儿童的成年收入有很大的负面影响，即使在控制学校教育的情况下也是如此，而且儿童开始工作的负面影响在12-14岁左右发生逆转。
This paper explores the question: is working as a child harmful to an individual in terms of adult outcomes in earnings? Although this is an extremely important question, little is known about the effect of child labor on adult outcomes. Estimations of an instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for male children even when controlling for schooling and that the negative impact of starting to work as a child reverses at around ages 12–14.