Tesis doctoral de Juan Manuel Puerta
This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (clls and csls). In the first two chapters i study the consequences of the enactment of csls on education and fertility. I use a combination of a difference-in-difference (did) methodology with an identification strategy based on legislative borders to find that the laws increased enrollment by 7% and educational attainment by about 0.3 years of education over the long run. As for fertility, i find that csls imply a contemporaneous reduction in fertility of about 15%. In the long run, women that received compulsory education were expected to have approximately 0.15 to 0.3 fewer children. In the third chapter of this dissertation i look at the effect of clls on industrial performance. I find that industries that initially relied extensively on child labor suffered a significant reduction in growth as a consequence of the social legislation. I conjecture that the potentially sizable but narrowly concentrated effects of clls could explain why child labor is still common in the developing world today.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Essays on the economic history of the family«
- Título de la tesis: Essays on the economic history of the family
- Autor: Juan Manuel Puerta
- Universidad: Pompeu fabra
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 03/06/2011
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Hans Joachim Voth
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: María libertad González luna
- alfonso Herranz loncán (vocal)
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