Child labor: The role of financial development and income variability across countries

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 913-932

  Dehejia, Rajeev H ^a   Gatti, Roberta ^b  

^a National Bureau of Economic Research ^*  (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; CHILD WELFARE; CREDIT PROVISION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION;

EID: 24344436407     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/428714     Document Type: Article

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