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Sauder, Markus Ulrich (2007) Essays on the economics of child labour and child education. PhD thesis, University of Warwick. Official URL: Abstract This thesis focuses on the economics of child labour and child education within developingand developed countries.The first part of the thesis examines child labour and child education in developing countries.It investigates the motivations of parents to send their children to work and analysesthe so-called commitment problem of child labour in a dynamic, overlapping generations gametheoretical model. As a novelty, this model relaxes the requirement of an observable historyof play and models the decision problem as an overlapping generations cyclic game. We showthat first-best contracts may me implemented, implying optimal child education and low childlabour, if a bequest sanction can be imposed by grandparents. We also discuss the special rolethat grandparents have within this model.The second part of the thesis analyses the economics of child education within a developedcountry context: the transmission of education across generations and the impact of a schoolingreform on educational choice and later outcomes. In a first chapter of this second part, weexamine specifically the influence of grandparents, as postulated by the model in part one, onthe education of grandchildren. A unique dataset on three generations, the National ChildDevelopment Survey of the UK, is used. As a special feature, we apply recent econometrictechniques to deal with censoring in a semi-parametric setting. The results indicate that it isnot education but rather unobservable factors on the parent and grandparent level that affectthe educational choice of grandchildren. These unobservable factors may be interpreted asinnate ability or parenting skills. In a second chapter within this part, a.
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This is a research proposal example on Child Labor: In America’s history we have had many problems with child labor. That is why “in 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt passed the Fair Labor Standards Act” (World Book 455). Child labor laws has helped the children in America greatly by not having to work long hours, having a minimum wage, and the worker must be at least 16 years of age before they can work. However, Child labor is still a problem in other undeveloped countries now. We have child labor laws because, “from the mid 1800s to the early part of this century, many young children were employed in what we now call “sweatshop conditions” (Russell Freedman 93). These children spent many hours working hard at dangerous jobs instead of going to school and getting a good education. Many factories and other firms hired children because they could be paid less than adults and get away with it. Furthermore, the children were overworked and underpaid, often working 16 hours a day, six days a week, and earning only pennies an hour. Kids often were also injured or killed while working under these brutal conditions. The child labor laws came into effect to stop these abuses and help young people go to school. These laws were passed to protect the health, safety, and well-being of young workers while at the same time affording them an opportunity to gain an education. “Many children among the age of 10, were hired by factories, this is why countries passed laws to stop the abuses of child labor” (Child Labor Coalition 4). Many children work today, but most are teenagers in the USA, Canada, Britain, and hold part-time jobs. The working conditions for youth today are carefully regulated by the law. I know the working rules are true by when I worked at Express in the mall, my friend who was only 17, was not allowed to work past 9p.m. during the week or weekend because she.