Eric Edmonds is an Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.  He is Director of the Child Labor Network  at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at IZA, and an associate editor at Economic Development and Cultural Change.  His research focuses on improving our empirical understanding of the reasons for the prevalence and persistence of child labor, illiteracy, and low levels of schooling attainment in low income countries.  Edmonds received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a M.A. and B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. 

Selection into Worst Forms of Child Labor:  Child Domestics, Porters, and Ragpickers in Nepal, April 2007

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments:  Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform (with N. Pavcnik and P. Topalova), February 2007, also available as  National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper #12884

Institutional influences on human capital accumulation: micro evidence from children vulnerable to bondage (with S. Sharma), November 2006

Personal Well-Being during Economic Growth, July 2004

Alternative Income Generation and Entry into Worst Forms of Child Labor, in Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor,(Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. DOL), 2006, pp. 69-114.

A Review of Alessandro Cigno and Furio Rosati's The Economics of Child Labour (Oxford University Press, 2005) for The Journal of Economic Literature, December 2006

Child Labor and Schooling Responses to Anticipated Income in South Africa, Journal of Development Economics, December 2006, 81(2), 386-414, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10265

Understanding Sibling Differences in Child Labor, Journal of Population Economics, 19(4), October 2006, 795-821.

Trade Liberalization and the Allocation of Labor between Households and Markets in a Poor Country (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, July 2006, 69(2), 272-295.

International Trade and Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics, January 2006, 115-140.

The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of International Economics 65(2), March 2005, 401-419, an earlier version is  NBER Working Paper #8760

Child Labor in the Global Economy (with N. Pavcnik), Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(1), Winter 2005, 199-220

Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status? The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 77-99, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10134

Rearranging the Family? Household Composition Responses to Large Pension Receipts (with K. Mammen and D. Miller), The Journal of Human Resources 40(1), Winter 2005, 186-207, an earlier version is NBER Working Paper #10306

Targeting Child Benefits in a Transition Economy, Economics of Transition 13(1), January 2005, 187-210.

Child Labor in Transition in Vietnam (with C. Turk) in P. Glewwe, N. Agrawal and D. Dollar (eds), Economic Growth, Poverty and Household Welfare in Vietnam. Washington DC: World Bank, 2004, pp. 505-550

Product Market Integration and Household Labor Supply in a Poor Economy: Evidence from Vietnam (with N. Pavcnik), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #3234, 2004

Household Composition and the Response of Child Labor Supply to Product Market Integration: Evidence from Viet Nam, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #3235, 2004

Should we boycott child labor?, Ethique économique/ Ethics and Economics 1(1), December 2003

Development Assistance and the Construction of Government Initiated Community Institutions, Economic Development and Cultural Change 51(4), July 2003

Child Labour in South Asia, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 5, 2003

Reconsidering the Labeling Effect for Child Benefits: Evidence from a Transition Economy, Economics Letters 76(3), August 2002, 303-309

Government Initiated Community Resource Management and Local Resource Extraction from Nepal's Forests, Journal of Development Economics 68(1), June 2002, 89-115, unpublished appendix tables

My Writings

Trade and Child Labour (with N. Pavcnik), an accessible description of recent research on how international trade influences child labor in poor countries, VoxEU.org, July 19, 2007
 
Understanding Child Labor:  Patterns, Types, and Causes – a commissioned essay for a U.S. State Department publication, Ending Abusive Child Labor, May 2005

Reduziert die Globalisierung die Kinderarbeit? – a commissioned Op-Ed in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 22/23, 2002. (English Translation)

New York Times coverage of various papers

The Economist coverage of Does Child Labor Decline with Improving Economic Status?

ID21 Coverage of The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor

NBER Digest coverage of The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor

CNN coverage of The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor

Montreal Gazette coverage of The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor

UPI wire service report on The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Labor

Economics 24:  Development Economics, Fall 07 and Winter 08
Economics 44:  Topics in Development Economics, Winter 08

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