Recently governments in developing countries have targeted economically disadvantaged communities in order to effectively alleviate poverty. In Indonesia, for example, the IDT program provided targeted villages with grants for small business loans. Chapter 1 addresses the impact…
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In order to understand child labor and schooling decisions of rural Bangladeshi households, and to recommend how policies may reduce child labor and increase schooling in rural Bangladesh, this dissertation uses econometric and economic analyses. The econometric analysis is unde…
The objective of this dissertation is to investigate how private intergenerational transfers respond to public policy changes in Indonesia. In particular, this paper investigates how private education and non-education transfers respond to newly implemented education policies. T…
O presente trabalho analisa a relação entre as empresas transnacionais e o trabalho infantil, de forma a delimitar quais são os parâmetros internacionais que podem jogar luz à temática da responsabilização das empresas pelos Direitos Humanos no âmbito da proteção infantil. Atual…
Why do child labor norms often fail to be transferred or enforced in developing countries even if the implementation of such norms already proved to have substantially reduced child labor practices in developed regions? In the field of international political economy, a number o…
This case study is an ethnographic study of workshops in four schools in Durgapur in rural Bangladesh with the goal to understand the perspectives regarding participation and paribesh (environment) of different groups of youth. Among the groups of youth included in this study ar…
Following the end of the Cold War, the West African nation of Togo underwent a series of economic and political crises that led to an unraveling of state authority, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and evangelical Christians taking over the role of governance. Within t…
This study investigates the interaction between wages and labor force participation in Palestine for the period of 2000 to 2011. This period has witnessed series of severe economic and political shocks and moderate recoveries. There are three areas of interest this dissertation …
There is an extensive literature suggesting large benefits to schooling among farm households in developing nations. However, there are few studies of the opportunity cost of education in developing nations, and, to this author's knowledge, none have examined how schooling inves…
The informal economy in Indonesia consists of a large number of home-based industries that use sub-contracted workers at low wages—very often school age children. This thesis examines the home-based industry production of footwear in Cibaduyut and Cangkuang Kulon, Bandung, analy…
This thesis examines both theoretically and empirically the joint determination of alternative work and school outcome processes, and the impact of child work on human capital accumulation in the context of rural Bangladesh, where low levels of educational achievement coexist wi…
The digital revolution has added a new way of humankind's communication methods by creating significant changes in social life. This new communication platform that changes the world and also rapidly keeps up with the changing world is called as "Social Media". This platform, wh…
Developing countries and the poor within them (i.e., the other) receive scant attention in management and organization studies (MOS). The field, thus, suffers from both ethnocentric and class biases. This research effort seeks to reduce these biases, particularly in the conversa…
This paper analyzes the relationship between availability of microfinance and child labor in rural Bangladesh. Using household-level fixed effect in panel data, this paper shows that the stock of women's recent loans negatively impacts child labor. A 10 percent increase in the s…
The empirical literature on child labor is replete with a variety of theoretical models that agree on the relationship between child labor and household wealth. Empirical evidence is more mixed. In part this has to do with a lack of agreement on what constitutes child labor and …
The phenomenon of child labor is global, and it is gradually claiming the attention of several scholars of various fields, especially in western societies, as people are becoming more conscious of the challenges and hard realities many children face. The emergence of new scholar…
