Macroeconomic Implications of Child Labor Laws and Marital Sorting

童工法和婚姻分类的宏观经济影响

• 批准号: 0079327
• 负责人: John Knowles
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-15 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0079327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Macroeconomic; Implications; Child; Labor; Laws

The objectives of this research project are to develop a microeconomic theory that explains the prevalence of laws that restrict parental decisions regarding the education and labor supply of their children. The basic idea is that such laws enable parents to commit to a higher level of education for their children, because in the absence of such laws, poor parents may be too impatient for additional consumption. In the longer run, this theory may serve as a prototype for investigations concerning the -relation between economic inequality and growth, as well as a positive model of the adoption of coercive social policies such as compulsory full-time education.The current stage of the project consists of developing anal testing a static model of child -labor restrictions, anal exploring some of the policy implications of the model, using household survey data from Africa, Asia and Latin America. This work will lead to the development of a proposal for a longer-term project to develop a dynamic equilibrium analysis of child labor on the basis of our findings from the research based on the static model.

本研究课题的目的是建立一种微观经济学理论，解释限制父母决定子女教育和劳动力供应的法律的普遍性。其基本思想是，这种法律使父母能够承诺为子女提供更高水平的教育，因为如果没有这种法律，贫穷的父母可能会迫不及待地增加消费。从长远来看，这一理论可以作为研究经济不平等与经济增长之间关系的原型，也可以作为采用强制性社会政策（如义务全日制教育）的积极模型。该项目的当前阶段包括开发一个静态的童工限制模型，并探索该模型的一些政策含义，使用来自非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲的家庭调查数据。这项工作将导致制定一项长期项目的建议，以根据我们基于静态模型的研究结果对童工进行动态平衡分析。