A Little Help May Be No Help at All: Size of Scholarships and Child Labour in Nepal
研究尼泊尔奖学金金额对童工的影响，发现高额奖学金使8-16岁女孩总工时减少三分之一，低额奖学金则无效果，为发展中国家调整转移支付规模提供参考。
In the empirical literature on child labour and income transfer programmes, evidence has been lacking on whether (and how) the size of transfer influences the impact on child labour. This paper finds significant size effects in the impact of scholarship-based transfers on child labour in Nepal. High-value scholarships decrease 8–16 year-old girls’ total work hours by one-third, largely reducing their hours in paid and unpaid economic activities with little impact on domestic chores. Low-value scholarships have no impact at all. The findings elucidate the scope for calibrating transfer size to achieve greater child labour impacts in developing countries.