Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
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Keywords
child labor; health insurance; Pakistan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
- J82 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Labor Force Composition
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2013-04-27 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2013-04-27 (Development)
- NEP-IAS-2013-04-27 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2013-04-27 (Microfinance)
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