The Economics of Child Labour [Hardcover]

In this book Cigno and Rosati develop a theoretical framework within which to analyze decisions about child labour, drawing on empirical studies and making policy recommendations. They address such issues as parental decisions, gender, education, health, fertility and infant mortality, and children living alone; provide studies of child labour in India, Vietnam, and Morocco; and discuss policies on compulsion and prohibition, redistribution, education, health, and the labor market.

Introduction
1. Prolegomena
2. Child labour, education and saving
3. Fertility, infant mortality, and gender
4. International trade
5. Child labour, education, nutrition and fertility
6. Child labour effects of access to basic utilities
7. Health effects of child labour
8. The effect of shocks and credit rationing on child labour
8. From theory to data
9. Further evidence on fertility, education, and child labour
Conclusion

A much-needed contribution to the body of work that examines child labor. ...Policymakers striving to eliminate the problem of child labor will appreciate the authors' cogent analysis, discussion of the implications of diverse policy alternatives, and prudent policy recommendations. --Journal ofChildren and Poverty

Alessandro Cigno is Professor of Economics at the University of Florence, President of CHILD, Fellow of CESifo and IZA, and an editor of the Journal of Population Economics. He has been a professor at the universities of Pisa, Hull and Birmingham. His visiting appointments include Munich, Paris (Science-Po), Argentina (Salta), Guatemala (Landivar), Wisconsin (Madison) and California (Santa Barbara). He has consulted for the British Council (India), Cooperazione Italiana, the EU Commission, UNICEF and the World Bank. Furio Camillo Rosati is currently professor of Public Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and director of the joint ILO- World Bank - UNICEF research prlS€