The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil

• Tác giả: Caio Piza
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 581.98 Specific topics in natural history of plants
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 323248
• Chủ đề: 1. BOYS; 2. CHILD LABOUR; 3. HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS; 4. LABOUR MARKET; 5. REPORTS

Tóm tắt

This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in Brazil's child labor law of December 1998. The change increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16 years. The analysis uses a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact of this change in the law on labor force participation rates as a whole, as well as for the formal and informal sectors separately. The results show that the ban reduced participation rates for boys by 4 percentage points and that this effect was mostly driven by the informal sector. No effect is found for girls.