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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.
Child
Labor Related
Essays and Surveys :
Child Labor,
forthcoming
in The Handbook of
Development Economics Volume 4,
a survey of the child labor literature in
economics aimed at graduate students intested in child labor, January
2007 (minor revisions, June 2007).
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
The
Economics of Consumer Actions against Products with Child Labor Content,
an essay aimed at educated readers with little formal economics
background, commissioned for The Child Labor World Atlas, May 2007
Child
Labor, a concise description of the economics literature on child
labor with a focus on international issues, presumes some background in
economics, commissioned for The
Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, April 2007
Understanding
Child Labor: Patterns, Types, and Causes, a commissioned
essay for a U.S. State Department publication, Ending
Abusive Child Labor, May 2005
Child
Labor in the Global Economy
(with N. Pavcnik), an introduction to the child labor literature in
economics aimed at an academic audience, Journal
of
Economic Perspectives 18(1), Winter
2005, 199-220
Working
Papers:
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
How well do
improvements in
economic status track non-monetary measures of well-being? Evidence
from child height, July 2004
Publications:
Economic
Influences on Child Migration Decisions: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar
Pradesh (with P. Salinger), Indian Growth
and Development Review, forthcoming
(inaugural issue), November 2007
Child
Labor, forthcoming in the Handbook
of
Development Economics, January 2007, also available as National Bureau of Economic
Research Working Paper # 12926
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
Popular
Press:
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)
Coverage of Research:
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
Courses:
Economics 24: Development
Economics, Fall 07 and Winter 08
Economics 44: Topics in Development Economics, Winter 08
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