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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 448-463Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.04.003
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child labor; school enrollment; Brazil; time allocation; coffee production
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I use variation in coffee production to measure changes in local economic conditions, which proxy for the value of children's time. I test how this short-term variation affects child labor and schooling in Brazilian coffee regions using seven rounds of household surveys. Increases in the county-level value of coffee production led to more work among middle-income boys and girls, poorer children were withdrawn from school, while richer children were not affected. Thus, during periods of economic growth, education of the poor may be adversely affected. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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