Does Child Labour Displace Schooling? Evidence on Behavioural Responses to an Enrollment Subsidy
研究孟加拉国农村的入学补贴对儿童劳动参与和入学的影响，发现补贴大幅提高入学率，但对童工的减少作用较小，替代效应保护了家庭当前收入。
It is often argued that child labour comes at the expense of schooling and so perpetuates poverty for children from poor families. To test this claim we study the effects on children's labour force participation and school enrollments of the pure school‐price change induced by a targeted enrollment subsidy in rural Bangladesh. Our theoretical model predicts that the subsidy increases schooling, but its effect on child labour is ambiguous. Our empirical model indicates that the subsidy increased schooling by far more than it reduced child labour. Substitution effects helped protect current incomes from the higher school attendance induced by the subsidy.