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Seasonal Child Labour in Nepal's Brick Kilns: A Study of Its Educational Impact and Parents' Attitudes towards It
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Sharma, Binita; Dangal, Megh R. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This study examines how child labour carried out in Nepal's brick kilns impacts classroom performance and achievement, while also exploring parents' perspectives towards it. To this end, a field study within select brick kilns was conducted among child labourers as well as adults whose offspring had previously worked as child labourers.…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Seasonal Laborers, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
New Evidence of the Causal Effect of Family Size on Child Quality in a Developing Country
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Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, Andre Portela – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes among Brazilian children and young adults by exploring the exogenous variation of family size driven by the presence of twins in the family. Using the…
Descriptors: Females, Family Size, Males, Human Capital
The Rehabilitation Paradox: Street-Working Children in Afghanistan
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Williams, Christopher; Yazdani, Farzaneh – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
International humanitarian intervention in Afghanistan reflects a policy discourse of "rehabilitation," which is very evident in relation to nongovernmental organization (NGO) projects for street-working children. Through analysing national and international policy, professional perceptions of the children, and field visits to see how…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Labor, Adolescents, Nongovernmental Organizations
Socialization for Survival: Developmental Issues among Working Street Children in India.
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Verma, Suman – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Notes that street life for children and adolescents in India provides few cognitive developmental opportunities that would lead to a better life, but does provide survival and crisis coping skills. Presents findings from a study of 100 street children and adolescents who return home every evening; the subjects work, interact with peers, and have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Labor, Children
Child Rights Information Network Newsletter, 2000-2002.
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Khan, Andrea, Ed.; Greenwood, Laura, Ed. – 2002
These five newsletter issues communicate activities of the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) and report on information resources and world-wide activities concerning children and child rights. The March 2000 issue focuses on children's right to education, assessing the matter form a range of differing perspectives, at international and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Child Labor
Brazil: The Fight for Childhood in the City. Innocenti Studies. The Urban Child in Difficult Circumstances.
Swift, Anthony – 1991
This publication is the second report, tailored to a non-specialist audience, of five country case studies under the Urban Child Program of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) International Child Development Center. The crisis of unprotected children and adolescents in Brazil has developed along with rapid industrialization and great…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Health, Child Labor