Favorite son? Specialized child laborers and students in poor LDC households

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 631-642

  Horowitz, Andrew W ^a   Wang, Jian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bequests; Child heterogeneity; Child labor; Intra household distribution

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; STUDENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 1442311541     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2003.04.005     Document Type: Article

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