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Estimating the causal impact of child work on the contemporaneous health of a child has proven quite challenging given non-random selection of children (i.e., selection based on unobserved attributes) into the labor market and the inability to find credible instruments. Recogniz…

Contesting international strategies for combatting child labour that derive from modern, Western conceptions of childhood, several developing country organizations have embraced the principle of child protagonism by declaring that working children can become the leading agents i…