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Soares, Rodrigo R.; Kruger, Diana; Berthelon, Matias – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
This paper argues that conflicting results from previous literature--related to the effect of economic conditions on child labor--derive from different income and substitution effects implicit in different types of income variation. We use agricultural shocks to local economic activity in Brazil (coffee production) to distinguish between increases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Economic Factors, Income
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Rosemberg, Fulvia; Andrade, Leandro Feitosa – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1999
Examines representations of street children and child and youth prostitution disseminated through literature and by international and Brazilian media during the 1980s and 1990s. Argues that dissemination of images that stigmatize the poor is caused by the need of the media and of modern philanthropy to make an impact on the public. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Economic Factors