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The Macroeconomics of Child Labor Regulation
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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.
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- Doepke, M., & Zilibotti, F.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2005-11-01
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1492-1524
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- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
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- W1999338836
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- en
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