全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19602
来源ID	Working Paper 19602
	Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
	Prashant Bharadwaj; Leah K. Lakdawala; Nicholas Li
发表日期	2013-10-31
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	While bans against child labor are a common policy tool, there is very little empirical evidence validating their effectiveness. In this paper, we examine the consequences of India's landmark legislation against child labor, the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data from employment surveys conducted before and after the ban, and using age restrictions that determined who the ban applied to, we show that child wages decrease and child labor increases after the ban. These results are consistent with a theoretical model building on the seminal work of Basu and Van (1998) and Basu (2005), where families use child labor to reach subsistence constraints and where child wages decrease in response to bans, leading poor families to utilize more child labor. The increase in child labor comes at the expense of reduced school enrollment. We also examine the effects of the ban at the household level. Using linked consumption and expenditure data, we find that along various margins of household expenditure, consumption, calorie intake and asset holdings, households are worse off after the ban.
主题	Labor Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19602
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577276
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Prashant Bharadwaj,Leah K. Lakdawala,Nicholas Li. Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban. 2013.