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Children's Work and Schooling: Does Gender Matter? - Evidence from the Peru LSMS Panel Data
- the Peru LSMS panel data, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank, Washington D.C., Processed
, 2001
"... schooling, housework and income-generating activities. Specifically, it explores whether sickness, employment of adult women, infrastructure and female headship have different impacts on the time use of boys and girls. Girls mostly engage in housework and boys mostly work outside the home. As a work ..."
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nets that protect household incomes from employment shocks and sickness and childcare programs that allow adult women to work would decrease the likelihood of girls being pulled out of school. The author is grateful to Christian Grootaert, Steen Jorgensen and seminar participants at the Economist