Arbeitspapier
School attendance and child labor: A model of collective behavior
This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of low school attendance and child labor. But it provides also an explanation for why equally poor villages or regions can display different attitudes towards schooling. Distinguishing between three different modes of child time allocation, school attendance, work, and leisure, the paper shows how the time costs of schooling and child labor productivity contribute to the existence of a locally stable anti-schooling norm. It proposes policies that effectively exploit the social dynamics and initiate a permanent escape from the anti-schooling equilibrium. An extension of the model explores how an education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 441
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Education: Other
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Thema
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School Attendance
Child Labor
Social Norms
Targeted Transfers
Bildungsverhalten
Kinder
Kinderarbeit
Haushaltsökonomik
Zeitallokation
Gemeinschaft
Soziale Werte
Public Choice
Armutspolitik
Bildungspolitik
Konsuminterdependenz
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Strulik, Holger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- (wo)
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Hannover
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Strulik, Holger
- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Entstanden
- 2010
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