Trade adjustment and human capital investments
Subtitle: evidence from Indian tariff reform
By: by Eric V. Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik, Petia Topalova.
Contributors: Pavcnik, Nina, 1971-
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2611; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2611
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: School attendance -- India.; Child labor -- India.; India -- Commercial policy.
Description: "Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The data suggest that this failure to follow the national trend of increasing schooling and diminishing work is associated with a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and therefore improved capacity to afford schooling"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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