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Limiting Child Labor through Behavior-based Income Transfers: An Experimental Evaluation of the PETI Program in Rural Brazil

In: Child Labor and Education in Latin America

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  • Yoon-Tien Yap
  • Guilherme Sedlacek
  • Peter F. Orazem

Abstract

Brazil has maintained a high incidence of child labor despite its relatively high level of income per capita. Brazilian law in the 1990s prohibited children under the age of 14 from working, but the law was not enforced effectively. Although the proportion of working children increased 5 percentage points as children went from age 13 to 14, the increase is small relative to the proportion already working illegally at younger ages. Of all children aged 10 to 13, 6% in urban areas and 33% in rural areas worked at some time in 1996. Complicating enforcement of the child-labor laws is the fact that most children work informally as unpaid family labor. In urban areas, 59% of working children were unpaid; in rural areas, the proportion was 91%. With such informal employment arrangements among household enterprises, it is very difficult to distinguish illegal labor from legal chores.1

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  • Yoon-Tien Yap & Guilherme Sedlacek & Peter F. Orazem, 2009. "Limiting Child Labor through Behavior-based Income Transfers: An Experimental Evaluation of the PETI Program in Rural Brazil," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter F. Orazem & Guilherme Sedlacek & Zafiris Tzannatos (ed.), Child Labor and Education in Latin America, chapter 9, pages 147-165, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62010-0_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230620100_10
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    1. Carla Canelas & Miguel Niño‐Zarazúa, 2019. "Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto Program," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 45(S1), pages 155-179, December.
    2. Marco Manacorda & Furio Camillo Rosati, 2011. "Industrial Structure and Child Labor Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 59(4), pages 753-776.
    3. Carla Canelas & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, 2018. "Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito Pinto," WIDER Working Paper Series 036, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    4. Carla Canelas & Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, 2018. "Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2018-36, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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