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Ravallion, Martin; Wodon, Quentin – 1999
This paper examines whether children sent to work in rural Bangladesh are caught in a "poverty trap," with the extra income from child labor coming at the expense of the children's longer-term prospects of escaping poverty through education. The poverty trap argument depends on children's work being substitutable for schooling. Casual…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Labor, Elementary Education, Enrollment
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Verner, Dorte – 2000
The link between poverty and child labor has been regarded as a well established fact, but recent research has questioned the validity of this link. Starting from the premise that child labor is not necessarily harmful, this paper analyzes the determinants of harmful child labor, viewed as labor that directly conflicts with children's human…
Descriptors: Attendance, Child Labor, Children, Elementary Education
Clark, Carol A. M. – 1981
To investigate whether low school attendance rates in Guatemala (about 35% of primary school aged children do not attend) are due primarily to the need for children in low income families to contribute to family income or child care and other housekeeping tasks, time use data were collected in 4 rural villages from mothers of 369 children, aged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Child Labor, Child Responsibility
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1907
After an introduction by the Commissioner of Education, chapters I and II of volume 1 cover reports from the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States. Chapter III addresses proceedings instituted to execute the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Subsequent chapters cover French education, agriculture teaching in French and Belgian schools,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Agricultural Education, Business Education, Higher Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1903
Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Urban Schools
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1906
Chapter XXI of volume 2 covers St. Louis Exposition presentations by U.S. colleges and universities, while Chapter XXII includes foreign countries' presentations. Subsequent chapters provide discussion and statistics on length of teachers' service; city school systems; universities, colleges, and technological schools; agricultural and mechanical…
Descriptors: Colleges, Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Vocational Education