Child labor and school achievement in Latin America

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-54

  Gunnarsson, Victoria ^a   Orazem, Peter F ^b   Sánchez, Mario A ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; CHILD LABOR; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 33646874331     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhj003     Document Type: Article

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