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The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation
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- Doepke, Matthias (Author)
- Zilibotti, Fabrizio (Author)
Title
The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation
Abstract
We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child labor laws. Workers who compete with children in the labor market support a child labor ban, unless their own working children provide a large fraction of family income. Fertility decisions lock agents into specific political preferences, and multiple steady states can arise. The introduction of child labor laws can be triggered by skill-biased technological change, which induces parents to choose smaller families. The theory can account for the observation that, in Britain, regulations were first introduced after a period of rising wage inequality, and coincided with rapid fertility decline.
Publication
American Economic Review
Volume
95
Issue
5
Pages
1492-1524
Date
2005-12
Citation
Doepke, M., & Zilibotti, F. (2005). The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation. American Economic Review, 95, 1492–1524.
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