The Causal Impacts of Child Labor Law in Brazil : Some Preliminary Findings
This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in Brazil’s child labor law of December 1998. The change increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16 years. The analysis uses a difference-in-differences approa...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25167333/causal-impacts-child-labor-law-brazil-some-preliminary-findings http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22873 |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the causal
impact of the change in Brazil’s child labor law of December
1998. The change increased the minimum legal age of entry
into the labor force from 14 to 16 years. The analysis uses
a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact
of this change in the law on labor force participation rates
as a whole, as well as for the formal and informal sectors
separately. The results show that the ban reduced
participation rates for boys by 4 percentage points and that
this effect was mostly driven by the informal sector. No
effect is found for girls. |
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